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Bethmeon. [Beth-me'on]


City of Reuben on the east of the Jordan. Jer. 48: 23. Apparently also called BAAL-MEON, BETH-BAAL-MEON, and BEON, Joshua 13: 17; Num. 32: 3; Num. 32: 38 (which says 'their names

being changed'); 1 Chr. 5: 8. Ezek. 25: 9 speaks of it as a city that was 'the glory of the country.' Identified with the ruins at Tell Maain, .