Numbers 21:26

Bible in Basic English 1965

For Heshbon was the town of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had made war against an earlier king of Moab and taken from him all his land as far as the Arnon.

Cross References

Song of Solomon 7:4

Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the waters in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim; your nose is as the tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus:

Song of Solomon 7:5

Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple, in whose net the king is prisoner.

Jeremiah 48:2

The praise of Moab has come to an end; as for Heshbon, evil has been designed against her; come, let us put an end to her as a nation. But your mouth will be shut, O Madmen; the sword will go after you.

Jeremiah 48:20

Moab has been put to shame, she is broken: make loud sounds of grief, crying out for help; give the news in Arnon, that Moab has been made waste.

Jeremiah 48:45

Those who went in flight from the fear are waiting under the shade of Heshbon: for a fire has gone out from Heshbon and a flame from the house of Sihon, burning up the pride of Moab and the crown of the head of the violent ones.

Numbers 21:25

And Israel took all their towns, living in Heshbon and all the towns and small places of the Amorites.

Numbers 21:27

So the makers of wise sayings say, Come to Heshbon, building up the town of Sihon and making it strong:

Deuteronomy 1:4

After he had overcome Sihon, king of the Amorites, ruling in Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, ruling in Ashtaroth, at Edrei:

Joshua 13:16

Their limit was from Aroer, on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the town in the middle of the valley, and all the table-land by Medeba;

Joshua 13:17

Heshbon and all her towns in the table-land; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon;

Joshua 13:25

And their limit was Jazer, and all the towns of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer before Rabbah;

Joshua 21:39

Heshbon and Jazer with their grass-lands, four towns.

Judges 11:26

While Israel was living in Heshbon and its daughter-towns and in Aroer and its daughter-towns and in all the towns which are by the side of the Arnon, for three hundred years, why did you not get them back at that time?