Bamoth-baal

Bamoth-baal ("high places of Baal") was the elevated cultic site in Moab where Balak king of Moab took the prophet Balaam to look down on the Israelite encampment "so that he might see the nearest of the people" he had been hired to curse (Numbers 22:41). From this vantage point Balaam pronounced not a curse but the first of his four oracles of blessing on Israel. The site lay on the Abarim ridge in central Moab near Mount Nebo and is generally identified with the elevation at Khirbet el-Quweijiyeh, providing a panoramic view westward across the Jordan Valley to the plains where Israel was camped.