Tell Nimrin has been identified by Nelson Glueck as the last of three sites successively occupied by the ancient city.
[citation needed] Wadi Nimrin, on whose south (left) bank all the three sites identified by Glueck with Beth Nimra are located, marks the northern limit of the Plains of Moab.
In the 4th century BCE, the city was settled by Israelites who had returned from the Babylonian exile and marked the furthest extent eastward of Jewish settlement in Transjordan.
[5] In c. 65 CE, the village was the site of a fierce battle during the First Jewish–Roman War under Vespasian, which saw the defeat of the town's defenders.
The non-combatants were exterminated, the able-bodied fled, the houses were ransacked by the soldiery, and the village set on fire.