Numbers 21:26

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Song of Solomon 7:4

Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

Song of Solomon 7:5

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

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!

Jeremiah 48:20

“Moab is put to shame, destroyed.” Wail and cry out, Proclaim it at the Arnon: “Moab is destroyed!”

Jeremiah 48:45

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.

Numbers 21:25

Israel seized all the towns here, and Israel settled in all the towns of the Amorites, in Heshbon and all its dependencies.

Numbers 21:27

That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt, let Sihon’s city be firmly constructed.

Deuteronomy 1:4

after he had defeated Sihon, king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei.

Joshua 13:16

Their territory reached from Aroer, on the bank of the Wadi Arnon, and the city in the wadi itself, through the tableland about Medeba,

Joshua 13:17

to include Heshbon and all its towns on the tableland, Dibon, Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon,

Joshua 13:25

Their territory included Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer, toward Rabbah

Joshua 21:39

Heshbon with its pasture lands, and Jazer with its pasture lands: four cities in all.

Judges 11:26

Israel has dwelt in Heshbon and its villages, Aroer and its villages, and all the cities on the banks of the Arnon for three hundred years. Why did you not recover them during that time?