Mount Nebo
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Mount Nebo is an elevated ridge located in Jordan, approximately 700 metres above sea level. Part of the Abarim mountain range, Mount Nebo is mentioned in the Bible as the place where Moses was grante
Mount Nebo seen from the east
The Brazen Serpent sculpture and view towards the Promised Land–Dead Sea and Jerusalem
Mosaic floor in the diaconicon-baptistery
Stone marker at the entrance
Ark of the Covenant
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The Ark of the Covenant, also known as the Ark of the Testimony or the Ark of God, was a religious storage chest and relic held to be the most sacred object by the Israelites.
Mount Nebo
…and 20 km (12 mi) east of Jerusalem. Mount Nebo is then mentioned again in 2 Maccabees (2:4–7), when the prophet Jeremiah hid the tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant in a cave there. A Christian church from Byzantine times stands on the top of Mount Nebo…
Moses and Joshua bowing before the Ark (c. 1900) by James Tissot
Ark of the chapelle de l'Adoration (Église Saint-Roch, Paris).
The Philistine captivity of the Ark depicted in the Dura-Europos synagogue
Joshua passing the River Jordan with the Ark of the Covenant by Benjamin West, 1800