Day 6- Amman and Mt. Nebo

Amman, Jordan



View From Mt. Nebo

 Today I am headed to Amman, the capital and largest city of Jordan.  Amman is one of the oldest cities and was known as Rabbath Amman in the Old Testament. It is here where King David army battled against the Ammonites and captured the city. "Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon and captured the royal city" 2 Samuel 12:26.  After visiting the old city of Amman, I took a bus to Madaba which is the city where the earliest Holy Land map was found.  From Amman I traveled to Mt. Nebo in the Moab valley. Mt Nebo stands tall in West Jordan and overlooks the Jordan Valley and onto the Dead Sea. According to the Bible, God gave Moses the Promised Land that He promised to deliver Moses and the Israelites to. "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 western sea, the Negev and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar. Then the LORD said to him, "This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, 'I will give it to your descendants.' I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it."And Moses the servant of the LORD died there in Moab, as the LORD had said. He buried him in Moab" Deuteronomy 34:1-6.