Numbers 32:34 - Exposition

The children of Gad built, i.e; no doubt, they put these places in some habitable and defensible state of repair until they should return. Dibon. Now Dhiban, four miles north of Arnon. It is called Dibon-gad in Numbers 33:45 , Numbers 33:46 , but it is doubtful whether there is any allusion to its present occupation, since "Gad" was a common affix in the languages of Canaan (cf. Joshua 11:17 ). Dibon was subsequently assigned to Reuben ( Joshua 13:9 ), but was recovered by Moab, and became one of his strongholds (of Isaiah 15:2 ; Jeremiah 48:18 , Jeremiah 48:22 ) The Moabite stone was found here. Ataroth. Now Attarus, seven miles from Dibon. Aroer. Not the Aroer before Rabbath ( Joshua 13:25 ), but the Aroer by the brink of Arnon ( Deuteronomy 2:36 ; Joshua 13:16 ).