Numbers 32:3

Ataroth, Dibon, and Jazer ,.... These were places which belonged to the Amorites, and were taken from Sihon, their king: of Ataroth we read nowhere else but in this chapter; of Dibon see Isaiah 15:2 , Jazer was a city, from whence the land about it had its name; it is the same with Jaazer, Numbers 21:32 and stood about fifteen miles from Heshbon F11 Jerom. de loc. Heb. fol. 92. G. , the capital city of the kingdom of Sihon:

and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon ; these were all places in the same country; of Heshbon see Numbers 21:25 , Nimrah is the same with Bethnimrah, Numbers 32:36 and sometimes called Nimrim, famous for its water, Isaiah 15:6 . Jerom says F12 lbid. K. the name of it in his time was Benamerium, and lay to the north of Zoar; Elealeh, according to the same writer F13 Ibid. fol. 91. A. was but a mile from Heshbon, of which see Isaiah 15:4 . Shebam is the same with Shibmah, Numbers 32:36 , and seems to be a place famous for vines, Isaiah 16:8 ; it is thought to be the same with the Seba of Ptolemy F14 Geograph. l. 5. c. 19. , and according to Jerom F15 Comment. in Esaiam, c. 16. 8. , there were scarce five hundred paces between this place and Heshbon; Nebo, the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan call the grave of Moses, because on a mountain of this name Moses died, and where it is supposed he was buried; but it is certain he was buried not on a mountain, but in a valley, Deuteronomy 34:6 , this perhaps had its name from the mountain near which it was, and of which see Isaiah 15:2 . Beon is the same that is called Baalmeon, Numbers 32:38 and Bethbaalmeon, Joshua 13:17 , where was very probably a temple of Baal; it was about nine miles from Heshbon F16 Eusebius apud Reland: Palest. Illustr. par. 2. l. 3. p. 611. .