Dibon

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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

1. Also called DIBON-GAD and DIMON

A city on the northern banks of the Arnon

• Numbers 21:30 But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”

Israelites encamp at

• Numbers 33:45 They set out from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad.

Allotted to Gad and Reuben

• Numbers 32:3 “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
• Numbers 32:34 And the Gadites built up Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
• Joshua 13:9 The area from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon,
• Joshua 13:17 to Heshbon and all its cities on the plateau, including Dibon, Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon,

Taken by Moab

• Isaiah 15:2 Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.
• Isaiah 15:9 The waters of Dimon are full of blood, but I will bring more upon Dimon — a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.
• Jeremiah 48:18 Come down from your glory; sit on parched ground, O daughter dwelling in Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come against you; he has destroyed your fortresses.
• Jeremiah 48:22 upon Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim,

2. A city in the tribe of Judah

• Nehemiah 11:25 As for the villages with their fields, some of the people of Judah lived in Kiriath-arba, Dibon, Jekabzeel, and their villages;

Probably identical with DIMINAH

• Joshua 15:22 Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,