Baal-meon

Baal-meon ("lord of the dwelling," also called Beth-baal-meon and Beth-meon) sat on the Moabite plateau east of the Dead Sea. The tribe of Reuben rebuilt and renamed it after taking the region from Sihon king of the Amorites (Numbers 32:38, Joshua 13:17, 1 Chronicles 5:8). Centuries later, Mesha king of Moab boasted in his famous ninth-century BCE stele — the Moabite Stone — that he "built Baal-meon and made the reservoir in it," reclaiming the city for Moab during his rebellion against Israel (2 Kings 3:4-27). By the time of Jeremiah, Baal-meon was firmly Moabite and is named in the prophet's oracle against Moab (Jeremiah 48:23, Ezekiel 25:9). Identified with modern Ma'in in Jordan, just south of Madaba.