Thematic Bible: Also called dibon-gad and dimon


Thematic Bible



against Dibon, Nebo and Beth-diblathaim,

They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, even to the high places to weep.
Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;
Everyone’s head is bald and every beard is cut off.
Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseBaldnessBeardsHeadsHigh PlacesKnives

For the waters of Dimon are full of blood;
Surely I will bring added woes upon Dimon,
A lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.
Verse ConceptsSurvivors DestroyedTurned To Blood

Come down from your glory
And sit on the parched ground,
O daughter dwelling in Dibon,
For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you,
He has ruined your strongholds.
Verse ConceptsdaughtersDry Places

Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo and Beon,

The sons of Gad built Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer,

Heshbon, and all its cities which are on the plain: Dibon and Bamoth-baal and Beth-baal-meon,

from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, with the city which is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba, as far as Dibon; Verse ConceptsArnon

“But we have cast them down,
Heshbon is ruined as far as Dibon,
Then we have laid waste even to Nophah,
Which reaches to Medeba.”

They journeyed from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad.

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