Medeba (mĕd'e-bah), waters of quiet. A city of Moab, first mentioned with Heshbon and Dibon. Numbers 21:30. It was afterward taken by the Israelites and allotted to the tribe of Reuben, Joshua 13:16; held by the Ammonites during the reign of David, 1 Chronicles 19:7-15, it later again reverted to Moab. Isaiah 15:2. After the return from the captivity it was alternately in the possession of the Jews and of the Gentiles.
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