Numbers 21:26

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken control of all his land as far as the Arnon.

Cross References

Song of Solomon 7:4

Your neck is like a tower of ivory, your eyes like pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon looking toward Damascus.

Song of Solomon 7:5

Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple cloth — a king could be held captive in your tresses.

Jeremiah 48:2

There is no longer praise for Moab; they plan harm against her in Heshbon: Come, let’s cut her off from nationhood. Also, Madmen, you will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.

Jeremiah 48:20

Moab is put to shame, indeed dismayed. Wail and cry out! Declare by the Arnon that Moab is destroyed.

Jeremiah 48:45

Those who flee will stand exhausted in Heshbon’s shadow because fire has come out from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It will devour Moab’s forehead and the skull of the noisemakers.

Numbers 21:25

Israel took all the cities and lived in all these Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all its villages.

Numbers 21:27

Therefore the poets say: Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored.

Deuteronomy 1:4

This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.

Joshua 13:16

this as their territory: From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, to the whole plateau as far as Medeba,

Joshua 13:17

with Heshbon and all its cities on the plateau — Dibon, Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon,

Joshua 13:25

this as their territory: Jazer and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites to Aroer, near Rabbah;

Joshua 21:39

Heshbon with its pasturelands, and Jazer with its pasturelands — four cities in all.

Judges 11:26

While Israel lived 300 years in Heshbon and its villages, in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, why didn’t you take them back at that time?