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Dhiban, biblical Dibon
726 m above sea level
In the Bible
Mesha king of Moab, a sheep breeder, paid tribute to Israel but rebelled after the death of Ahab. Dibon is named among the towns built up by the Gadites.
2 Kgs 3:4–5
Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he would render to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams. But after the death of Ahab, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.Num 32:34
And the Gadites built up Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,Here today
A town beside the excavated mound where Mesha's own inscription, a basalt stone of c. 840 BC telling of his war with Israel, was found in 1868.
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