bā´moth, bā´moth-bā´al (בּעל בּמות, bāmōth- ba‛al, "high places of Baal"): Bamoth is referred to in [Numbers 21:19-20], as a station in the journeyings of Israel North of the Arnon. It is probably the same place as the Bamoth-baal of 22:41 (Revised Version margin), whither Balak, king of Moab, conducted Balaam to view and to curse Israel. Bamoth-baal is named in [Joshua 13:17] as one of the cities given to Reuben. Mesha, on the Moabite Stone, speaks of having "rebuilt" Beth-bamoth. Smith's Bible Dictionary or
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