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Gill's Exposition
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim. Heshbon was the royal city of Sihon king of the Amorites, and Elealeh was within a mile of it, see Num 32:3, this shows that…
The cities here named fall into three groups. On Dibon, compare Num 21:19. The Moabite stone was discovered here in 1868. This city, occupied on the first acquisition of the territory by the Gadites,…
Many of these towns have been identified with some probability. But the list represents a tradition very different from that in Jos 13:15-28 (P), and must be ultimately derived from an earlier source,…