Numbers 21:25

Israel took all the Amorite cities and lived in all of them, including Heshbon and all of its villages.

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In The King James Version

And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.

In Context

24Israel attacked the army of Sihon with the edge of the sword and took their land from the Arnon to the Jabbok river, as far as the land of the people of Ammon. Now the border of the people of Ammon was fortified.

26Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab. Sihon had taken all his land from his territory to the Arnon River.

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Cross References

Numbers 32:3“This is a list of places we have surveyed: Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon.

Deuteronomy 2:12The Horites also lived in Seir previously, but the descendants of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them and lived in their place, like Israel did to the land of his possession that Yahweh gave to them.)

Song of Solomon 7:4Your neck is like a tower of ivory; 1 your eyes are the pools in Heshbon 1 by the gate of Bath Rabbim. 1 Your nose is like the tower in Lebanon 1 that looks toward Damascus. 1

Isaiah 16:8The fields of Heshbon have dried up as well as the vines of Sibmah. 1 The rulers of the nations have trampled the choice vines 1 that reached to Jazer and spread into the desert. 1 Its shoots spread abroad; they went over to the sea. 1

Jeremiah 48:34From the shouts at Heshbon as far as Elealeh, their sound is heard at Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath Shelishiyah, since even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.

Ezekiel 16:46Your older sister was Samaria and her daughters were the ones living in the north, while your younger sister was the one living south of you, that is, Sodom and her daughters.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 21:22-35

Sihon and Og Overthrown. ( b. c. 1452.) 21 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, 22 Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders. 23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against… Read the whole commentary →

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