Bible Location
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Dibon was a city east of the Dead Sea associated especially with Moab and the wider transjordanian world. It is important because it appears in Israel's early eastern campaigns and later in prophetic material concerning Moab. First appears in Num 21:30.1
AI summary: Dibon's significance lies in its place within the overlap of Israelite and Moabite history east of the Jordan. It appears in the transjordanian movement toward the land and later becomes more firmly associated with Moab, which helps explain its prominence in prophetic passages. Because of that, Dibon stands as one of the notable cities of the eastern plateau where shifting political control and identity mattered. The cross references present Dibon as a key Moabite-linked city in the transjordan.1
A city in Moab (Num. 21:30); called also Dibon-gad (33:45), because it was built by Gad and Dimon (Isa. 15:9). It has been identified with the modern Diban, about 3 miles north of the Arnon and 12 miles east of the Dead Sea. (See Moabite Stone.) 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.