Balak summoned Balaam to the Moabite highlands overlooking Israel’s camp on the plains east of the Jordan, across from Jericho. Individual viewing sites cannot be fixed with certainty.
How to read this map
Numbers supplies no birth year, age, or calendar date for Balaam. The precise identification of Pethor and the locations from which he viewed Israel remain debated, so the map focuses on the plains of Moab.
Sources: Numbers 22–24; 31:16, NIV; Natural Earth. Checked September 20, 2026.