Mount Nebo This is the place from which Moses contemplated the Promised Land, without being able to enter it. Mount Nebo rises eight kilometers to the northwest of Madaba, at the western reaches of a plateau with various peaks, bordered to the north by Wadi Uyun Musa, “valley of the springs of Moses” and to the south by Wad Afrit. The highest point to the left of the road, where some dolmens rise, is the actual Mount Nebo, Jebel an-Neba in Arabic (802 meters high). Mount Pisgah, of which the Bib