Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
Numbers 21:25 - Y'all Version Bible Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages. 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 Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble within them.
The praise for Moab is no more. In Heshbon they have devised evil against her: ‘Y’all come! Let’s cut her off from being a nation.’ You, the city of Madmen, will be silenced. The sword will pursue you.
From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for the waters of Nimrim will also become desolate.
“Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, and a flame from the middle of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom with her daughters.
“‘“Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had pride, abundance of bread, and prosperous ease, but they didn’t support the hand of the poor and needy.
“‘“I will reverse their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your captives among them;
Also I brought y’all up out of the land of Egypt and led y’all forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
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 to the Arnon.
“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
The Horites also lived in Seir previously, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place, as Israel did to the land of his possession, which YHWH gave to them.)
“‘I brought y’all into the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan. They fought with y’all, but I gave them into y’all’s hand. Y’all possessed their land, and I destroyed them from before y’all.
Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along the side of the Arnon for three hundred years! Why didn’t y’all recover them within that time?