Isaiah 15:2

He is gone to Bajith, and to Dibon - הבית עלה alah habbayith , should be rendered, he is gone to the House, i.e., to their chief temple, where they practiced idolatry. Dibon was the name of a tower where also was an idolatrous temple; thither they went to weep and pray before their idols, that they might interpose and save them from their calamities. So R. D. Kimchi. Me is gone to Bajith and to Dibon: but Bishop Lowth reads Beth Dibon; this is the name of one place; and the two words are to be joined together, without the ו vau intervening. So the Chaldee and Syriac. This reading is not supported by any MS. or Version: but some MSS., instead of ער ar , have עיר ir , a city, others have עד ad , unto, and some editions have על al , upon. But all these help little, though they show that the place puzzled both the scribes and the editors.

On all their heads shall be baldness, etc." On every head there is baldness," etc. - Herodotus, 2:36, speaks of it as a general practice among all men, except the Egyptians, to cut off their hair as a token of mourning. "Cut off thy hair, and cast it away," says Jeremiah, Jeremiah 7:29 , "and take up a lamentation."

Τουτο νυ και γερας οιον οἱζυροισι βροτοισι<-144 Κειρασθαι τε κομην, βαλεειν τ ' απο δακρυ παρειωνπ .

Hom. Odyss. 4:197.