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A day's journey in pre-modern literature, including the Bible [1] [2] and ancient geographers and ethnographers such as Herodotus, is a measurement of distance. In the Bible, it is not as precisely defined as other Biblical measurements of distance ; the distance has been estimated from 32 to 40 kilometers (20 to 25 miles).
Biblical mile (Hebrew: מיל, romanized: mīl) is a unit of distance on land, or linear measure, principally used by Jews during the Herodian dynasty to ascertain distances between cities and to mark the Sabbath limit, equivalent to about ⅔ of an English statute mile, or what was about four furlongs (four stadia). [1]
Moab would be dealt with during the time of the Messiah's rulership according to the prophets. [13] The book of Zephaniah states that Moab would become "a permanent desolation". [14] Moab is also made reference to in the 2 Meqabyan, a book considered canonical in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. [15]
Kerioth (Hebrew: קְרִיּוֹת, Qǝrīyyōṯ) is the name of two cities mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.The spelling Kirioth appears in the King James Version of Amos 2:2. [1]
According to the Bible (Deuteronomy), Moses ascended Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab (today in Jordan), and from there he saw the Land of Canaan (the Promised Land), which God had said he would not enter; Moses then died there. [1] The Bible (Deuteronomy 34:6) says Moses' burial place was unknown. A monument atop Mount Nebo commemorates Moses ...
"Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead to Dan, all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Mediterranean Sea, the Negev and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of ...
Biblical kingdoms of Ammon, Edom and Moab around 830 BCE According to the Hebrew Bible, Ammon and Moab were nations that occupied parts of Transjordan in ancient times. According to Genesis , ( 19:37–38 ), Ammon and Moab were descendants of Lot by Lot's two daughters, in the aftermath of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah .
The Plains of Moab (Hebrew: עַרְבוֹת מוֹאָב, romanized: Arboth Mo'av, lit. 'Dry areas of Moab ') are mentioned in three books of the Hebrew Bible ( Numbers , Deuteronomy and Joshua ) as an area in Transjordan , stretching along the Jordan "across from Jericho ", [ 1 ] and more specifically "from Beth Jeshimoth to Abel Shittim ...