Numbers 21:26

Good News Translation

Heshbon was the capital city of the Amorite king Sihon, who had fought against the former king of Moab and had captured all his land as far as the Arnon River.

Cross References

Song of Solomon 7:4

Your neck is like a tower of ivory. Your eyes are like the pools in the city of Heshbon, near the gate of that great city. Your nose is as lovely as the tower of Lebanon that stands guard at Damascus.

Song of Solomon 7:5

Your head is held high like Mount Carmel. Your braided hair shines like the finest satin; its beauty could hold a king captive.

Jeremiah 48:2

the splendor of Moab is gone. The enemy have captured Heshbon and plot to destroy the nation of Moab. The town of Madmen will be silenced; armies will march against it.

Jeremiah 48:20

‘Moab has fallen,’ they will answer, ‘weep for it; it is disgraced. Announce along the Arnon River that Moab is destroyed!’

Jeremiah 48:45

Helpless refugees try to find protection in Heshbon, the city that King Sihon once ruled, but it is in flames. Fire has burned up the frontiers and the mountain heights of the war-loving people of Moab.

Numbers 21:25

So the people of Israel captured all the Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all the surrounding towns, and settled in them.

Numbers 21:27

That is why the poets sing, “Come to Heshbon, to King Sihon's city! We want to see it rebuilt and restored.

Deuteronomy 1:4

This was after the Lord had defeated King Sihon of the Amorites, who ruled in the town of Heshbon, and King Og of Bashan, who ruled in the towns of Ashtaroth and Edrei.

Joshua 13:16

Their territory extended to Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) and the city in the middle of that valley and included all the plateau around Medeba.

Joshua 13:17

It included Heshbon and all the cities on the plateau: Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baalmeon,

Joshua 13:25

Their territory included Jazer and all the cities of Gilead, half the land of Ammon as far as Aroer, which is east of Rabbah;

Joshua 21:39

Heshbon, and Jazer, with their pasture lands.

Judges 11:26

For three hundred years Israel has occupied Heshbon and Aroer, and the towns around them, and all the cities on the banks of the Arnon River. Why haven't you taken them back in all this time?