And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.
Nebo - now Neba, near the mountain of that name (cf. 1 Chronicles 5:8; 1 Chronicles 15:2; Jeremiah 48:1).
Baal-meon - now Main, in ruins, situated on an eminence where was a temple of Baal (Joshua 13:17; Jeremiah 48:23), called also Beth-meon (Jeremiah 48:28).
Shibmah or Shebam (Numbers 32:2), Hebrew, Sibmah, near Heshbon, famous for vines (Isaiah 16:9-10; Jeremiah 48:32).
(Their names being changed,) - either because it was the general custom of conquerors to do so, or rather because, from the prohibition to mention the names of other gods (Exodus 23:13), as Nebo and Baal were, it was expedient on the first-settlement of the Israelites to obliterate all remembrance of those idols (see the notes at Joshua 13:17-20).