Jeremiah 48:45

New American Bible - revised edition

In Heshbon’s shadow the fugitives stop short, exhausted; For fire blazes up from Heshbon, and flames up from the house of Sihon: It consumes the forehead of Moab, the scalp of the noisemakers.

Cross References

Psalm 135:11

Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, all the kings of Canaan—

Psalm 78:63

Fire consumed their young men; their young women heard no wedding songs.

Jeremiah 2:16

Yes, the people of Memphis and Tahpanhes shave the crown of your head.

Jeremiah 48:2

Moab’s glory is no more. In Heshbon they plot evil against her: “Come! We will put an end to her as a nation.” You, too, Madmen, shall be silenced; you the sword stalks!

Amos 2:2

I will send fire upon Moab, and it will devour the strongholds of Kerioth; Moab shall meet death amid uproar, battle cries and blasts of the ram’s horn.

Zechariah 10:4

From them will come the tower, from them the tent peg, from them the bow of war, from them every officer.

Numbers 21:21

Now Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, with the message,

Numbers 21:26

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

Numbers 21:28

For fire went forth from Heshbon and a blaze from the city of Sihon; It consumed Ar of Moab and swallowed up the high places of the Arnon.

Numbers 21:29

Woe to you, Moab! You are no more, people of Chemosh! He let his sons become fugitives and his daughters be taken captive by the Amorite king Sihon.

Numbers 24:17

I see him, though not now; I observe him, though not near: A star shall advance from Jacob, and a scepter shall rise from Israel, That will crush the brows of Moab, and the skull of all the Sethites,

Matthew 21:42

Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the scriptures: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes’?