A location in Moab near which Moses delivered his final addresses and was buried (Deuteronomy 3:29; 4:46; 34:6). It was in the valley near Beth-Peor that Israel was seduced into worshiping Baal of Peor — the catastrophic apostasy that killed 24,000 (Numbers 25).
Beth-Peor is a place of devastating tragedy and extraordinary grace in one. At Peor, Israel fell into sexual immorality and idolatry just as they approached the promised land — echoing Adam and Eve's fall in the garden at the threshold of divine blessing. Yet God buried Moses within sight of this very site, covering the prophet's grave in mercy and mystery. No human could find it to venerate it as an idol. The place of Israel's greatest shame became the resting place of Israel's greatest prophet — a testimony that God redeems even our most catastrophic failures.