Numbers 21:28

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For fire went out from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of the high places of the Arnon.

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  • Num 21:15 : 15 The ravines of the valleys that extend to the settlement of Ar and rest along the border of Moab.
  • Jer 48:45-46 : 45 In the shadow of Heshbon, the fugitives stand helpless, for a fire has gone out from Heshbon, and a flame from Sihon. It devours the corner of Moab and the crown of the noisy boasters. 46 Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh are destroyed. Your sons have been taken into exile, and your daughters into captivity.
  • Amos 1:4 : 4 So I will send fire upon the house of Hazael, and it will consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad.
  • Amos 1:7 : 7 So I will send fire upon the wall of Gaza, and it will consume her palaces.
  • Amos 1:10 : 10 So I will send fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it will consume her palaces.
  • Amos 1:12 : 12 So I will send fire upon Teman, and it will consume the palaces of Bozrah.
  • Amos 1:14 : 14 So I will set fire to the wall of Rabbah, and it will consume her palaces amid shouting on the day of battle, with a tempest on the day of the whirlwind.
  • Amos 2:2 : 2 'So I will send fire upon Moab, and it will consume the fortresses of Kerioth. Moab will die in great tumult, with shouting and the sound of the trumpet.'
  • Amos 2:5 : 5 'So I will send fire upon Judah, and it will consume the fortresses of Jerusalem.'
  • Num 22:41 : 41 The next morning, Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamoth-baal, from where he could see the outskirts of the people.
  • Deut 2:9 : 9 The LORD said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any part of their land as a possession. I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.'
  • Deut 2:18 : 18 'Today you are to cross the border of Moab at Ar.
  • Judg 9:20 : 20 But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and consume the leaders of Shechem and Beth-Millo, and let fire come out from the leaders of Shechem and Beth-Millo and consume Abimelech.
  • Isa 10:16 : 16 Therefore, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, will send leanness among his robust ones, and under his glory, a burning will be kindled, like the burning of fire.
  • Isa 15:1-2 : 1 An oracle concerning Moab: In the night, Ar of Moab was devastated and destroyed. In the night, Kir of Moab was devastated and destroyed. 2 They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Every head is shaved, and every beard is cut off.

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  • Jer 48:45-46
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    84%

    45In the shadow of Heshbon, the fugitives stand helpless, for a fire has gone out from Heshbon, and a flame from Sihon. It devours the corner of Moab and the crown of the noisy boasters.

    46Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh are destroyed. Your sons have been taken into exile, and your daughters into captivity.

  • Num 21:26-27
    2 verses
    81%

    26Heshbon was the city of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and captured all his land up to the Arnon.

    27That is why the poets said: 'Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt, let Sihon’s city be restored.'

  • Num 21:29-30
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    78%

    29Woe to you, Moab! You have been destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He has given up his sons as fugitives and his daughters as captives to Sihon, king of the Amorites.

    30But we overthrew them; Heshbon as far as Dibon is destroyed. We devastated Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.

  • Isa 16:7-8
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    74%

    7Therefore, Moab will wail for Moab—everyone will wail. Mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, utterly stricken and grieving.

    8The fields of Heshbon languish, as does the vine of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have struck its choice vines, which reached as far as Jazer, wandered into the wilderness, and spread their shoots abroad, crossing the sea.

  • Jer 48:34-36
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    74%

    34The crying of Heshbon resounds to Elealeh and Jahaz, they have raised their voices from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. Even the waters of Nimrim are dried up.

    35I will put an end in Moab to the one who sacrifices on the high places and burns incense to his gods, declares the LORD.

    36Therefore, my heart moans for Moab like the sound of flutes; it moans like flutes for the men of Kir-heres, because their accumulated wealth has perished.

  • Jer 48:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20Moab is put to shame, for it is shattered. Wail and cry out! Proclaim at the Arnon that Moab is destroyed.

    21Judgment has come to the land of the plain—to Holon, to Jahaz, and to Mephaath,

  • Amos 2:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1This is what the LORD says: 'For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.'

    2'So I will send fire upon Moab, and it will consume the fortresses of Kerioth. Moab will die in great tumult, with shouting and the sound of the trumpet.'

  • Jer 48:1-5
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    1This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says concerning Moab: Woe to Nebo, for it is devastated! Kiriathaim is disgraced and captured; the mighty stronghold is humbled and shattered.

    2The glory of Moab is no more! In Heshbon, a plan for disaster was made against her: 'Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!' Even Madmen will be silenced; the sword will follow you.

    3A cry of distress comes from Horonaim: great destruction and devastation!

    4Moab is broken! A cry is heard; even her young ones make their distress known.

    5For at the ascent of Luhith, weeping goes with the steps; as they descend to Horonaim, cries of destruction are heard from the enemy.

  • Isa 15:4
    73%

    4Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore, the armed men of Moab cry out, and their souls are filled with dread.

  • Isa 9:18
    72%

    18By the wrath of the LORD Almighty, the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no one spares his brother.

  • Isa 15:1
    72%

    1An oracle concerning Moab: In the night, Ar of Moab was devastated and destroyed. In the night, Kir of Moab was devastated and destroyed.

  • Amos 1:14
    72%

    14So I will set fire to the wall of Rabbah, and it will consume her palaces amid shouting on the day of battle, with a tempest on the day of the whirlwind.

  • Ps 83:14
    71%

    14My God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.

  • Num 21:13-15
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    71%

    13They set out from there and camped beyond the Arnon, which flows through the wilderness out of the Amorite territory. The Arnon was the border between Moab and the Amorites.

    14Therefore, it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD: 'Waheb in Suphah and the wadis of the Arnon.'

    15The ravines of the valleys that extend to the settlement of Ar and rest along the border of Moab.

  • Num 31:10
    71%

    10They burned all the towns where the Midianites had lived and all their encampments with fire.

  • Jer 48:42
    71%

    42Moab will be destroyed as a people, because he exalted himself against the LORD.

  • Jer 48:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15Moab is devastated, and its towns have been destroyed! The best of its young men have gone down to slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

    16The calamity of Moab is near at hand, and her disaster is rushing swiftly.

  • Josh 13:10
    71%

    10It also included all the cities of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, up to the border of the Ammonites.

  • Job 22:20
    71%

    20Surely our enemies are destroyed, and fire has consumed their wealth.

  • Job 31:12
    71%

    12It is a fire that burns to destruction, consuming all my harvest.

  • Deut 32:22
    71%

    22For a fire has been kindled in My wrath, and it burns to the depths of Sheol. It consumes the earth and its produce and sets ablaze the foundations of the mountains.

  • Deut 29:23
    71%

    23All the nations will ask, 'Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?'

  • Isa 15:8
    70%

    8For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab. Its wailing reaches Eglaim, and its lamentation goes all the way to Beer Elim.

  • Joel 2:3
    70%

    3Before them, fire devours; behind them, flames blaze. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is a desolate wilderness—nothing escapes them.

  • Ps 106:18
    70%

    18Fire blazed among their company; flames consumed the wicked.

  • Joel 1:19
    70%

    19To you, Lord, I call, for fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flames have burned all the trees of the field.

  • Jer 48:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8The destroyer will come to every city, and no city will escape. The valley will perish, and the plateau will be destroyed, for the LORD has spoken.

    9Give Moab wings so she may fly away, for her cities will become desolate, with no one living in them.

  • Zeph 2:9
    69%

    9Therefore, as surely as I live—declares the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel—Moab will become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual ruin. The remnant of My people will plunder them, and the survivors of My nation will inherit their land.

  • Amos 1:12
    69%

    12So I will send fire upon Teman, and it will consume the palaces of Bozrah.

  • Jer 48:25
    69%

    25The horn of Moab is cut off, and her arm is broken, declares the LORD.

  • Jer 48:18
    69%

    18Come down from your place of glory and sit in thirst, inhabitant daughter of Dibon, for the one who destroys Moab has attacked you, ruining your fortresses.

  • Job 41:21
    69%

    21Clubs are regarded as stubble; he laughs at the rattling of javelins.

  • Lam 4:11
    69%

    11The LORD has exhausted His wrath and poured out His fierce anger; He kindled a fire in Zion, consuming its foundations.