Numbers 21:26

New Century Version

Heshbon was the city where Sihon, the Amorite king, lived. In the past he had fought with the king of Moab and had taken all the land as far as the Arnon.

Cross References

Song of Solomon 7:4

Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon near the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the mountain of Lebanon that looks down on Damascus.

Song of Solomon 7:5

Your head is like Mount Carmel, and your hair is like purple cloth; the king is captured in its folds.

Jeremiah 48:2

Moab will not be praised again. Men in the town of Heshbon plan Moab’s defeat. They say, ‘Come, let us put an end to that nation!’ Town of Madmen, you will also be silenced. The sword will chase you.

Jeremiah 48:20

Moab is filled with shame, because she is ruined. Cry, Moab, cry out! Announce at the Arnon River that Moab is destroyed.

Jeremiah 48:45

“People have run from the powerful enemy and have gone to Heshbon for safety. But fire started in Heshbon; a blaze has spread from the hometown of Sihon king of Moab. It burned up the leaders of Moab and destroyed those proud people.

Numbers 21:25

Israel captured all the Amorite cities and lived in them, taking Heshbon and all the towns around it.

Numbers 21:27

That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon and rebuild it; rebuild Sihon’s city.

Deuteronomy 1:4

This was after the Lord had defeated Sihon and Og. Sihon was king of the Amorite people and lived in Heshbon. Og was king of Bashan and lived in Ashteroth and Edrei.

Joshua 13:16

Theirs was the land from Aroer near the Arnon Ravine to the town of Medeba, including the whole plain and the town in the middle of the ravine;

Joshua 13:17

Heshbon and all the towns on the plain: Dibon, Bamoth Baal, and Beth Baal Meon,

Joshua 13:25

the land of Jazer and all the towns of Gilead; half the land of the Ammonites that went as far as Aroer near Rabbah;

Joshua 21:39

Heshbon, and Jazer, and the pastures around these four towns.

Judges 11:26

For three hundred years the Israelites have lived in Heshbon and Aroer and the towns around them and in all the cities along the Arnon River. Why have you not taken these cities back in all that time?