| | | | =DESSAU= |2 Macc. xiv. |_Not |-- |Adassa has been | 16 | identified_ | | suggested (Ewald). | | | | =DIBLATH= (R.V. |Ezek. vi. 14 |_Dibl_ (??)* | 6 |Probably Riblah, north =DIBLAH=) | | | | of Baalbek. See | | | | _Dictionary of Bible_. | | | | Or the present village | | | | ‘Dibl’ in Naphtali. | | | | (_Mem._ I. 21; Sh. | | | | IV.)--Conder. | | | | =DIBON= (1) |Num. xxi. 30; |_Dhîbân_ |15 |Also called ‘Dibon | xxxii. 3, | | | Gad.’ Now the heaps | 34; xxxiii. | | | of ruins north of the | 45, 46; | | | river Arnon, called | Josh. xiii. | | | ‘Dhîbân.’ (Irby | 9, 17; Isa. | | | and Mangles, 142; | xv. 2; Jer. | | | Burckhardt, Syr., 372.) | xlviii. 18, | | | | 22 | | | | | | | =DIBON= (2) |Neh. xi. 25 | |-- |Thought to be identical | | | | with Dimonah. | | | | =DIBON-GAD= |Num. xxxiii. |_Dhîbân_ |-- |_See_ Dibon (1). | 45, 46 | | | | | | | =DILEAN= (R.V. |Josh. xv. 38 |_Not |-- |One of the cities of =DILAN=) | | identified_ | | Judah in the low | | | | country. Mentioned | | | | with Migdal-gad, | | | | Lachish, Eglon, etc. | | | | Beit Tîma, north-west | | | | of the latter, has | | | | been proposed. | | | | =DIMNAH= |Josh. xxi. 35 |_Rummâneh_ (?)| 6 |A city in the tribe of | | | | Zebulon. Thought to be | | | | Rimmon (1). Compare 1 | | | | Chron. vi. 77. | | | | =DIMON=, Waters |Isa. xv. 9 |_Umm Deineh_ |15 |Streams east of the of | | (?)* | | Salt Sea. Possibly | | | | ‘Umm Deineh,’ near