DIBON
DIMON
, Isaiah 15:9, and DI-BON-GAD, Numbers 33:45, Numbers 1:33, a town of Gad, Numbers 32:34, but afterwards of Reuben, Joshua 13:17. It lay in a plain just north of the Arnon, and was the first encampment of the Israelites upon crossing that river. Later we find it in the hands of the Moabites, Isaiah 15:2Jeremiah 48:22. Traces of it remain at a place now called Diban.


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