Balaam blessed Israel the second time from the top of Mount Pisgah (Numbers 23:14) From "the top of Pisgah" i.e. Mount Nebo, an area which belonged to Moab, Moses surveyed the Promised Land (Numbers 27:12 and 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 The prophet Jeremiah linked it with Bashan and Lebanon as locations from which the people cried in vain to God for rescue (Jeremiah 22:20) Jeremiah hid the ark there (II Maccabees 2:4-5). (The book of 2 Maccabees is included in Bibles used by Roman Catholics, but generally not in Protestant or Jewish Bibles.)