Beon

Beon was the shortened form of Baal-meon, a Transjordan town that the Reubenites and Gadites had identified as good pasture land when they petitioned Moses to settle east of the Jordan: "Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle... saying, Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon" (Numbers 32:1-3). The fuller name Baal-meon appears just verses later (Num 32:38). The site is identified with modern Ma'in southwest of Madaba.