Moses ends his life looking at a land he will not enter, and Beth-peor is where he is standing. “So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor,” he tells Israel (Deuteronomy 3:29), and the valley is where he gives them the law before they cross the Jordan (Deuteronomy 4:46). The town is later counted among the places in Reuben’s share (Joshua 13:20). The name is tied to a hard memory, the moment of Israel’s failure at Peor, but in these verses it simply marks where Moses spoke. Deuteronomy 4 is the place to read.
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So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor.
On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:
And Bethpeor, and Ashdothpisgah, and Bethjeshimoth,
Matthew George Easton, 1897
House of Peor; i.e., “temple of Baal-peor”, a place in Moab, on the east of Jordan, opposite Jericho. It was in the tribe of Reuben (Josh. 13:20; Deut. 3:29; 4:46). In the “ravine” or valley over against Beth-peor Moses was probably buried (Deut. 34:6).
William Smith, 1884
(house of Peor), a place on the east of Jordan, opposite Jericho and six miles above Libias or Beth-haran. (Joshua 13:20; 3:29; 4:46)