Joshua 13:9

and all the plain of Medeba Instead of "half Gilead," as in ch. Joshua 12:2, we have here "all the plain (Mishor = "table-land" or "downs") of Medeba unto Dibon," "the wijld feeldis of Medeba," Wyclif. Medeba is first mentioned in the fragment of a populare song of the time of the conquest, Numbers 21:30, "Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba." It is in the pastoral district of the Belka, four miles S. E. of Heshbon, and like it lying on a rounded but rocky hill. In Christian times it was a noted bishopric of the patriarchate of Becerra. Dibon, or Dibon-Gad, from its being taken possession of and rebuilt by the children of Gad (Numbers 32:3; Numbers 32:34), or Dimon(in Isaiah 15:9), has been discovered with the name Dhibanon the Roman road three miles north of the Arnon (Wady el-Mojeb). Here the inscribed block of basalt, known as "the Moabite stone," was discovered in 1868.