Numbers 21:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, Come to Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:

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  • Num 21:14 : 14 Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD, What He did in the Red Sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
  • Isa 14:4 : 4 That you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
  • Hab 2:6 : 6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him who increases that which is not his! How long? And to him who loads himself with thick clay!

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  • Num 21:25-26
    2 verses
    84%

    25And Israel took all these cities: and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.

    26For 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 Arnon.

  • Num 21:28-30
    3 verses
    80%

    28For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it has consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.

    29Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh: he has given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.

    30We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even to Dibon, and we have laid them waste even to Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.

  • Josh 13:10
    74%

    10And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;

  • Jer 48:45
    72%

    45Those who fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force; but a fire shall come out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

  • Num 21:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks toward Jeshimon.

    21And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

  • Josh 13:17
    71%

    17Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon,

  • Deut 4:46
    71%

    46On this side of Jordan, in the valley opposite Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck, after they came out of Egypt:

  • Isa 15:4
    71%

    4And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even to Jahaz; therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous to him.

  • Deut 2:24
    70%

    24Rise up, take your journey, and cross over the river Arnon; behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it and engage him in battle.

  • Deut 2:26
    70%

    26And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

  • Judg 11:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    19And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, Let us pass, we pray you, through your land to my place.

    20But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his territory: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and camped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

  • Isa 16:8
    70%

    8For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the nations have broken down the principal plants of it, they have come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they have gone over the sea.

  • Josh 13:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20And Bethpeor, and Ashdothpisgah, and Bethjeshimoth,

    21And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the princes of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, who were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.

  • 1 Chr 6:81
    69%

    81Heshbon with its pasturelands, and Jazer with its pasturelands.

  • Deut 29:7
    69%

    7And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them down:

  • Deut 1:4
    69%

    4After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:

  • Josh 12:2
    69%

    2Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

  • Deut 2:29-32
    4 verses
    69%

    29(as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar did unto me) until I cross over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God gives us.

    30But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as appears this day.

    31And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before you; begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.

    32Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.

  • Josh 21:39
    68%

    39Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four cities in all.

  • Jer 48:34
    68%

    34From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh and to Jahaz they have uttered their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old; for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.

  • Num 21:23
    68%

    23But Sihon would not allow 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 Israel.

  • Deut 2:17
    68%

    17that the LORD spoke unto me, saying,

  • Jer 48:2
    68%

    2There shall be no more praise of Moab. In Heshbon they have devised evil against it: 'Come, and let us cut it off from being a nation.' You too shall be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue you.

  • Ezek 21:20
    68%

    20Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

  • Num 32:37
    67%

    37And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,

  • 1 Sam 30:28
    67%

    28And to them who were in Aroer, and to them who were in Siphmoth, and to them who were in Eshtemoa,

  • Ps 135:11
    67%

    11Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan:

  • 2 Kgs 3:21
    67%

    21And when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, they gathered all who were able to put on armor, and stood at the border.

  • Josh 13:26-27
    2 verses
    67%

    26And from Heshbon to Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;

    27And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and its border, even to the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.

  • Judg 11:26
    67%

    26While Israel lived in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that are along the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? Why did you not recover them within that time?

  • Josh 9:10
    67%

    10And all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.

  • Num 21:13-15
    3 verses
    66%

    13From there they moved, and camped on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the borders of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

    14Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD, What He did in the Red Sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,

    15And at the stream of the brooks that goes down to the dwelling of Ar, and lies upon the border of Moab.

  • Jer 49:3
    66%

    3Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is destroyed: cry out, you daughters of Rabbah, clothe yourselves with sackcloth; mourn, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king will go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.

  • Prov 21:22
    66%

    22A wise man scales the city of the mighty and casts down the strength of its confidence.

  • 2 Chr 20:10
    66%

    10And now, see, the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whom You would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them and did not destroy them;

  • Num 23:7
    66%

    7And he took up his parable and said, Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, defy Israel.

  • Jer 25:21
    66%

    21Edom, Moab, and the children of Ammon,