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Moabites: Possessed Many and Great Cities

Source: TTT

Numbers 21:28, 30 For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights. / But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”
Isaiah 15:1–4 This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night! / Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off. / In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.
Jeremiah 48:21–24 Judgment has come upon the high plain—upon Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath, / upon Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim, / upon Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon,