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As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
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Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
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So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:
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Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.
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As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”
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Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.
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He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
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So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
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Balak Summons Balaam
Then the Israelites traveled to the plains of Moab and camped along the Jordan across from Jericho.
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So on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them and said,
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These are the ones counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest when they counted the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
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and brought the captives, spoils and plunder to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the Israelite assembly at their camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.
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They left the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
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There on the plains of Moab they camped along the Jordan from Beth Jeshimoth to Abel Shittim.
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On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho the Lord said to Moses,
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Towns for the Levites
On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, the Lord said to Moses,
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These are the commands and regulations the Lord gave through Moses to the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
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The Death of Moses
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,
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The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning was over.
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About forty thousand armed for battle crossed over before the Lord to the plains of Jericho for war.
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On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover.
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This is the inheritance Moses had given when he was in the plains of Moab across the Jordan east of Jericho.
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The people of Joseph replied, “The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who live in the plain have chariots fitted with iron, both those in Beth Shan and its settlements and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”
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The Lord was with the men of Judah. They took possession of the hill country, but they were unable to drive the people from the plains, because they had chariots fitted with iron.
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The Amorites confined the Danites to the hill country, not allowing them to come down into the plain.
