A town of the Amorites, near Heshbon their capital, assigned to the tribe of Reuben, Numbers 32:3,37 , and long afterwards threatened as a city of Moab, Isaiah 15:4; 16:9; Jeremiah 48:34 . Its ruins, now El- Aal, are a mile or more northeast of Heshban.
Although written in 1859 by William Rand, this dictionary of the Bible from the American Tract Society is still relevant today.Wikipedia
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