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 towards Damascus.
Numbers 21:25 - New International Version (Anglicised) Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its surrounding settlements. 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 the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon looking towards Damascus.
Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out, and their hearts are faint.
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.
‘The sound of their cry rises from Heshbon to Elealeh and Jahaz, from Zoar as far as Horonaim and Eglath Shelishiyah, for even the waters of Nimrim are dried up.
‘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.
Your elder sister was Samaria, who lived to the north of you with her daughters; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you with her daughters, was Sodom.
‘ “Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
‘ “However, I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters and of Samaria and her daughters, and your fortunes along with them,
I brought you up out of Egypt and led you for forty years in the wilderness to give you the land of the Amorites.
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.
‘Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo and Beon –
Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land the Lord gave them as their possession.)
‘ “I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought against you, but I gave them into your hands. I destroyed them from before you, and you took possession of their land.
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?