Medeba

Medeba (meaning waters of rest or waters springing up) was a town on the high Moabite plateau east of the Jordan, originally Moabite, later conquered by Sihon the Amorite king (Numbers 21:30), and assigned by Moses to the tribe of Reuben (Joshua 13:16). It figures in accounts of Israelite warfare: the Ammonite army camped at Medeba when David's forces defeated them (1 Chronicles 19:7), and Isaiah's oracle against Moab (Isaiah 15) mentions its grief. The town later reverted to Moabite control and was celebrated in the Mesha Stele, where Mesha king of Moab boasts of taking it back from Israel.