Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,
Numbers 21:27 - English Standard Version 2016 Therefore the ballad singers say, “Come to Heshbon, let it be built; let the city of Sihon be established. Matoleo zaidiKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, Let the city of Sihon be built and prepared: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition That is why those who sing ballads say, Come to Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and established. American Standard Version (1901) Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come ye to Heshbon; Let the city of Sihon be built and established: Common English Bible Therefore, the poets say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be built. Let the city of Sihon be established. Catholic Public Domain Version About this, it is said in the proverb: "Enter into Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be established and built. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Therefore it is said in the proverb: Come into Hesebon. Let the city of Sehon be built and set up. |
Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,
you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: “How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased!
Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, “Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own— for how long?— and loads himself with pledges!”
Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord, “Waheb in Suphah, and the valleys of the Arnon,
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.
For fire came out from Heshbon, flame from the city of Sihon. It devoured Ar of Moab, and swallowed the heights of the Arnon.