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(Heb. Bamoth'- Ba'al, áִּòִì áָּîåֹúàּ , heights of Baal; Sept. Âáìὼè ÂÜáë v.r. Âáéìὼí ÂÜáë , and áἰ óôÝëáé ôïῦ ÂÜáë ), or, as the margin of our version reads, “the high places of Baal”, SEE BAAL, a place given to the tribe of Reuben, and situated on the river Arnon, or in the plain through which that stream flows, east of the Jordan (Jos_13:17; comp. Num_21:28; Num_22:41; not Jer_32:35). It is probably the same place elsewhere (Num_21:19) called simply BAMOTH SEE BAMOTH (q. v ). Knobel (Comment. in loc.) identifies it with the modern Jebel Attarus, a site marked by stone-heaps observed both by Seetzen (2. 342) and Burckhardt (Syria, p. 370); but this is rather the summit of Nebo.