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Dibon – en by mentioned in 10 verse in the Bible

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Tel Dibon. 65 km fra Amman lige nord for den moderne landsby af same name. Dibon erobret fra moabitterne af amoritterkongen Sihon (4 Mos 21,30). Derefter erobret af Gads stamme (4 Mos 32,34). Moabitterkongen Eglon erobrer egnen (Dom 3,12), men David slår Moab (2 Sam 8,2). Moab selvstændigt efter rigets deling, men erobres igen af Omri 887 f.Kr. og måtte betale skat i Israel i 40 år indtil Akabs død, hvorefter kong Mesha befriede landet (2 Kgs 3,4-6) og gjorde Dibon til hovedstad. Her blev Meshastelen fundet 1868. 2005. Foto: Hartvig Wagner, Late bronze (1550-1200 BC), EuroPLOT

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Dibon

Pining; wasting. 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…

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Location data: Theographic Bible Metadata (CC BY-SA 4.0) and OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Photos: Hartvig Wagner, EuroPLOT Resources. Leksikontekst: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.