Peor standard
It is placed by Eusebius, Onomasticon on the way between Livias and Heshbon, 7 Roman miles from the latter.
Where is Peor in the Bible?
Peor was a mountain located in Moab, in the region east of the Jordan River between the towns of Livias and Heshbon, though its exact modern location remains uncertain. It is best known from the book of Numbers, where the pagan king Balak brought the prophet Balaam to curse the Israelites from Peor's heights, a plot that ultimately failed when God blessed Israel instead. Later, Peor became the site of a tragic spiritual failure when the Israelites engaged in idolatry and sexual immorality with Moabite women in worship of Baal-peor, resulting in God's judgment. This incident, recorded in Numbers 25, stands as a warning in Scripture about the dangers of compromise with pagan practices and unfaithfulness to God.
In Scripture2 biblical books; 1 with study content
- Numbers
- Joshua
Peor
ISBE 1915 (Public Domain)It is placed by Eusebius, Onomasticon on the way between Livias and Heshbon, 7 Roman miles from the latter. Buhl would identify it with Jebel el-Mashaqqar, on which are the ruins of an old town, between Wady A`yun Musa and Wady Chesban.
(2) A town in the Judean uplands added by Septuagint (Phagor) to the list in Jos 15:9. It may be identical with Khirbet Faghur to the South of Bethlehem.
(3) Peor, in Nu 25:18; 31:16; Jos 22:17, is a divine name standing for "Baal-peor."
(4) In Ge 36:39, Septuagint reads Phogor for "Pau" (Massoretic Text), which in 1Ch 1:50 appears as "Pai."
W. Ewing
1The Country
This is not a Scriptural name, but the term used by Josephus to denote the district to which the rabbis habitually refer as "the land beyond Jordan."