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 21:26 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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, even unto Arnon. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For Heshbon was the city of Sihon 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 river] Arnon. American Standard Version (1901) 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, even unto the Arnon. Common English Bible Now Heshbon was the city of Sihon the Amorite king who had fought against the former king of Moab. He had taken all his land from him as far as the Arnon. Catholic Public Domain Version Heshbon was the city of Sihon, the king of the Amorites, who fought against the king of Moab. And he took all the land, which had been under his sovereignty, as far as Arnon. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Hesebon was the city of Sehon the king of the Amorrhites, who fought against the king of Moab: and took all the land, that had been of his dominions, as far as the Arnon. |
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.
Your head on you is like Karmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.
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.
Mo'av is disappointed; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell you it by the Arnon, that Mo'av is laid waste.
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.
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.
Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, *Come to Cheshbon. Let the city of Sichon be built and established;
after he had struck Sichon the king of the Amori, who lived in Cheshbon, and `Og the king of Bashan, who lived in `Ashtarot, at Edre`i.
Their border was from `Aro`er, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeva;
Cheshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Divon, and Bamot-Ba`al, and Beit-Ba`al-Me`on,
Their border was Ya`zer, and all the cities of Gil`ad, and half the land of the children of `Ammon, to `Aro`er that is before Rabbah;
Cheshbon with its suburbs, Ya`zer with its suburbs; four cities in all.
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?