Numbers 23:28

the top of the Peor&c. An expression exactly parallel to that in Numbers 21:20 (see note). The site of -the Peor" is unknown, but it was evidently in the neighbourhood of the Pisgah. And Beth-peor (Deuteronomy 3:29; Deuteronomy 4:46; Deuteronomy 34:6; Joshua 13:20) cannot have been far distant, since it was evidently a sanctuary where the Baal or Lord of Peor (Numbers 25:3; Numbers 25:5) was worshipped. The LXX. equivalent for Peor is Phogôr; and Eusebius speaks of a mountain of that name opposite Jericho, and says that part of it was 7 miles from Heshbon. It should probably, therefore, be placed quite close to the Wady Ḥeshbân (see art. -Beth-Peor" in Enc. Bibl.[Note: nc. Bibl. Encyclopaedia Biblica.]).