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Moabite tableland city named in Isaiah's lament — Reuben's allotment that changed hands repeatedly
MoabHistorically Verified
Modern Madaba in Jordan, home of the famous 6th-century Madaba Mosaic Map — the oldest surviving map of the Holy Land, preserved in a church floor mosaic.
A Moabite city on the tableland east of the Jordan, captured by Israel and assigned to Reuben (Numbers 21:30; Joshua 13:9, 16). King David fought Aram-zobah and the Ammonites at Medeba (1 Chronicles 19:6-15). The city changed hands repeatedly across the centuries — the Mesha Stele records that Omri's Israel held it for a generation before Mesha retook it for Moab. Centuries later Isaiah named it in his lament for Moab — "Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba" (Isaiah 15:2).
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