Baalpeor
Mountain
Location disputed Khirbet Ayun Musa: about 50 km (30 miles) east of Jerusalem
Where Scholars Place It
- Khirbet Ayun Musa Possible
- Khirbet el Muhatta Possible
Baal-peor in the Bible Dictionary
Named in 2 Verses
- Deuteronomy 4:3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
- Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
Locations from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Terrain from Natural Earth and NASA SRTM.
