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Is there a website that links words in the Bible to relevant wikipedia articles?

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I'm looking for something like Strong's Concordance but for historical cities and other things that the average modern Westerner wouldn't understand without research. I'm reading Isaiah 15 and there are several place names (Ar, Kir, Dibon, Nebo, Medeba, etc) that are completely unfamiliar to me but some quick searches on wikipedia told me all I was looking for. I would like a (free) bible study tool that links to those kinds of things with footnotes or something. Doesn't have to be wikipedia but that was my first thought. [Strong's Concordance](https://strongsconcordance.org/results.html?k=dibon) shows all occurrences of Dibon and says > or (shortened) Diybon {dee-bone'}; from 01727; pining:--Dibon, the name of three places in Palestine:--Dibon. (Also, with 01410 added, Dibon-gad.) But what I wanted to know is exactly what [the wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhiban,_Jordan#Dhiban_and_the_Israelites) says > According to the Bible, the Israelites stopped at Dhiban during the Exodus. The Bible mentions "Divon" (Hebrew: דִּיבֹן), or "Divon Gad" (דִּיבֹן גָּד‎) because the city was said to have been occupied by the tribe of Gad. The name in Biblical Hebrew means wasting or pining. > According to the Mesha Stele found at the site, Mesha, a Moabite king from the 9th century BCE, expelled the Israelites and established ancient Dhiban as an important settlement in the kingdom of Moab.
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Jan 19, 2023, 02:47 PM
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