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Among them are Dibon (Numbers 13:45), a city where the Israelites' camped on their way to invade Canaan, and Hebron (Numbers 13:22), another city targeted for invasion.
Roger Isaacs: Passover In Egypt: Did The Exodus Really Happen? Roger Isaacs 2011
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Among them are Dibon (Numbers 13:45), a city where the Israelites' camped on their way to invade Canaan, and Hebron (Numbers 13:22), another city targeted for invasion.
Roger Isaacs: Passover In Egypt: Did The Exodus Really Happen? Roger Isaacs 2011
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One must always keep phenomena (2) and (3) in mind, remembering cases like Dibon, where the digs disclosed Early Bronze settlements and Iron Age settlements but practically nothing from Middle and Late Bronze.
Inerrancy, Historicity, Maximalism and Minimalism James F. McGrath 2009
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This might have led one to suppose that references to Dibon in Numbers 21:30 and Joshua 13 were anachronisms.
Inerrancy, Historicity, Maximalism and Minimalism James F. McGrath 2009
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But one would be wrong; Ramesses II conquered Dibon just a few decades before the probable time of the events in Joshua and celebrated his victory in the sculptured reliefs of the temple at Luxor.
Inerrancy, Historicity, Maximalism and Minimalism James F. McGrath 2009
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But when it is proposed to reject an ancient narrative written, at least prima facie, with historical intent, on the basis of a negative argument from archaeology, examples like Dibon should remind us to approach the inference with considerable caution.
Inerrancy, Historicity, Maximalism and Minimalism James F. McGrath 2009
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And for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjatharba, and in the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and in the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and in the villages thereof
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Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds.
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Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; 2. He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
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And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim
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