Regions beyond; i.e., on the east of Jordan, a mountain, or rather a mountain-chain, over against Jericho, to the east and south-east of the Dead Sea, in the land of Moab. From "the top of Pisgah", i.e., Mount Nebo (q.v.), one of its summits, Moses surveyed the Promised Land ( Deuteronomy 3:27 ; 32:49 ), and there he died (34:1,5). The Israelites had one of their encampments in the mountains of Abarim ( Numbers 33:47,48 ) after crossing the Arnon.
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source-manifest/easton— Easton's Bible Dictionary (PD)