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Dibon

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: D By: James P. Boyd

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(wasting). (1) A town of Gad (Num. 32:3,34³Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon, (Numbers 32:3)
³⁴And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, (Numbers 32:34)). Dibon-gad (Num. 33:45-46⁴⁵And they departed from Iim, and pitched in Dibon-gad. ⁴⁶And they removed from Dibon-gad, and encamped in Almon-diblathaim. (Numbers 33:45‑46)). Accounted to Reuben (Josh. 13:9,17⁹From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon; (Joshua 13:9)
¹⁷Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon, (Joshua 13:17)). Now Dhiban, within the gateway of which the famous Moabite stone was found in 1868. (2) A town in south Judah (Neh. 11:25²⁵And for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjath-arba, and in the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and in the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and in the villages thereof, (Nehemiah 11:25)).

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