Esebon, or Hesbon (anc. geog.), the royal city of the Amorites, in the tribe of Reuben, according to Moses: Though in Joshua xxi. 39. where it is reckoned among the Levitical cities, it is put in the tribe of Gad; which argues its situation to be on the confines of both. It is thus determined by Jerome, who says, that in his time it was called Esbus. A considerable city, in the mountains of Arabia which lie over against Jericho, distant 20 miles from the river Jordan; not indeed in the same latitude with Jericho, but somewhat more to the north, because situated on the borders of the Gadites; and called a city of Arabia, because the Arabs were at that time possessed of the Lower Petraea.