Numbers 21:26

New International Version

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

Cross References

Song of Solomon 7:4

Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are the pools of 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. Your hair is like royal tapestry; the king is held captive by its tresses.

Jeremiah 48:2

Moab will be praised no more; in Heshbon people will plot her downfall: ‘Come, let us put an end to that nation.’ You, the people of Madmen, will also be silenced; the sword will pursue you.

Jeremiah 48:20

Moab is disgraced, for she is shattered. Wail and cry out! Announce by the Arnon that Moab is destroyed.

Jeremiah 48:45

“In the shadow of Heshbon the fugitives stand helpless, for a fire has gone out from Heshbon, a blaze from the midst of Sihon; it burns the foreheads of Moab, the skulls of the noisy boasters.

Numbers 21:25

Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its surrounding settlements.

Numbers 21:27

That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon and let it be rebuilt; let Sihon’s city be restored.

Deuteronomy 1:4

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

Joshua 13:16

The territory from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the middle of the gorge, and the whole plateau past Medeba

Joshua 13:17

to Heshbon and all its towns on the plateau, including Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,

Joshua 13:25

The territory of Jazer, all the towns of Gilead and half the Ammonite country as far as Aroer, near Rabbah;

Joshua 21:39

Heshbon and Jazer, together with their pasturelands—four towns in all.

Judges 11:26

For three hundred years Israel occupied Heshbon, Aroer, the surrounding settlements and all the towns along the Arnon. Why didn’t you retake them during that time?