Numbers 21:26

Revised Standard Version

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

Cross References

Song of Solomon 7:4

Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, overlooking Damascus.

Song of Solomon 7:5

Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.

Jeremiah 48:2

the renown of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they planned evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!’ You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue you.

Jeremiah 48:20

Moab is put to shame, for it is broken; wail and cry! Tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.

Jeremiah 48:45

“In the shadow of Heshbon fugitives stop without strength; for a fire has gone forth from Heshbon, a flame from the house of Sihon; it has destroyed the forehead of Moab, the crown of the sons of tumult.

Numbers 21:25

And Israel took all these cities, and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.

Numbers 21:27

Therefore the ballad singers say, “Come to Heshbon, let it be built, let the city of Sihon be established.

Deuteronomy 1:4

after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edre-i.

Joshua 13:16

So their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba;

Joshua 13:17

with Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the tableland; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon,

Joshua 13:25

Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is east of Rabbah,

Joshua 21:39

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

Judges 11:26

While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, three hundred years, why did you not recover them within that time?