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Bajith signifies a house. It is supposed to be the name of a place, so called from some eminent house or temple of their idols which was in it. It is called more fully Bethbaal-meon, that is, The house of Baal’s habitation, Jos_13:17.
Dibon; another city of Moab, as is manifest from Jer_48:18,22, where also was their other eminent high place. To these two places they used to resort in case of great difficulties and troubles.
To weep; to offer their supplications with tears to their idols for help.
Over Nebo and over Medeba; two considerable cities, anciently belonging to the Moabites, from whom they were taken by the Amorites, and from them by the Israelites, and possessed by the Reubenites, Num_21:30 32:3,38; but were, as it seems, recovered by the Moabites, in whose hands they now were, as is evident, for Nebo, Jer_48:1,22, and for Medeba, from this text.
On all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off; the hair of their heads and beards (which was their ornament) was shaved, as was usual in great mournings, as hath been oft observed upon divers preceding texts. See on Lev_19:27,28 21:5.