Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Cheshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Levanon which looks toward Damascus.
Numbers 21:25 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Yisra'el took all these cities: and Yisra'el lived in all the cities of the Amori, in Cheshbon, and in all the towns of it. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Israel took all these cities and dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all its towns. American Standard Version (1901) And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the towns thereof. Common English Bible The Israelites took all these cities. Then the Israelites settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and all its villages. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, Israel took all his cities and lived in the cities of the Amorite, namely, in Heshbon and its villages. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So Israel took all his cities, and dwelt in the cities of the Amorrhite to wit, in Hesebon, and in the villages thereof. |
Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Cheshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Levanon which looks toward Damascus.
Cheshbon cries out with El`aleh. Their voice is heard even to Yahatz. Therefore the armed men of Mo'av cry aloud. Their souls tremble within them.
The praise of Mo'av is no more; in Cheshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue you.
From the cry of Cheshbon even to El`aleh, even to Yahatz have they uttered their voice, from Tzo`ar even to Choronayim, to Eglat-Shelishi-Yah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate.
Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Cheshbon; for a fire is gone forth out of Cheshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sichon, and has devoured the corner of Mo'av, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
Your elder sister is Shomron, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sedom and her daughters.
Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sedom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
I will turn again their captivity, the captivity of Sedom and her daughters, and the captivity of Shomron and her daughters, and the captivity of your captives in the midst of them;
Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amori.
For Cheshbon was the city of Sichon the king of the Amori, who had fought against the former king of Mo'av, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.
`Atrot, and Divon, and Ya`zer, and Nimrah, and Cheshbon, and El`aleh, and Sevam, and Nevo 1, and Be`on,
The Chori also lived in Se`ir before, but the children of Esav succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Yisra'el did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them.)
I brought you into the land of the Amori, that lived beyond the Yarden: and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand, and you possessed their land; and I destroyed them from before you.
While Yisra'el lived in Cheshbon and its towns, and in `Aro`er and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of the Arnon, three hundred years; why didn't you recover them within that time?