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Places of the Bible

Baal-meon

City

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Baal-meon, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

  • Prophecies of Ezekiel · 592 BC · 1 verse

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Lord of dwelling, a town of Reuben (Num. 32:38), called also Beth-meon (Jer. 48:23) and Beth-baal-meon (Josh. 13:17). It is supposed to have been the birth-place of Elisha. It is identified with the modern M’ain, about 3 miles south-east of Heshbon.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 3 verses

Numbers
32:38
1 Chronicles
5:8
Ezekiel
25:9

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.