Peor

PEOR, or Phogor, a famous Mountain beyond Jordan, which Eusebius places between Hesbbon and Livias¹. The Mountains Nebo, Pisgah, and Peor were near one another, and probably made but the same Chain of Mountains. It is very likely that Peor took its Name from some Deity of the same Name, which was worshipped there; for Peor, or Phegor, or Baal-peor was known in this Country. See Numb. xxv. 3. Deut. iv. 3. Psalm cv. 28.

Peor was a City of the Tribe of Judah, which is not read in the Hebrew, nor in the Vulgate, but only in the Greek of Josh. xv. 60. Eusebius says it was near Bethlehem, and Jerome adds, that in his Time it was called Paora.

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