Bethbaalmeon:
(house of Baalmeon) a place in the possessions of Reuben, on the downs (Authorized Version "plain") east of the Jordan (Joshua 13:17). At the Israelites' first approach its name was BAAL‐MEON (Numbers 32:38) or, in its contracted form, BEON (Numbers 32:3) to which the Beth was possibly a Hebrew addition. SEE [BAAL, 9.]. Later it would seem to have come into possession of Moab, and to be known either as Beth‐meon (Jeremiah 48:23) or Baal‐meon (Ezekiel 25:9). The name is still attached to a ruined place of considerable size a short distance to the southwest of Hesban, and bearing the name of "the fortress of Mi'un," or Makin.
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