Numbers 21:28

KJV1611 – Modern English

For 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.

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  • Num 21:15 : 15 And at the stream of the brooks that goes down to the dwelling of Ar, and lies upon the border of Moab.
  • Jer 48:45-46 : 45 Those 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. 46 Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh perish, for your sons are taken captive and your daughters captive.
  • Amos 1:4 : 4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.
  • Amos 1:7 : 7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour its palaces:
  • Amos 1:10 : 10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, which shall devour its palaces.
  • Amos 1:12 : 12 But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
  • Amos 1:14 : 14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:
  • Amos 2:2 : 2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
  • Amos 2:5 : 5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
  • Num 22:41 : 41 And it happened on the next day, that Balak took Balaam and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that from there he might see the furthest part of the people.
  • Deut 2:9 : 9 And the LORD said unto me, Do not distress the Moabites, nor contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.
  • Deut 2:18 : 18 You are to pass through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day.
  • Judg 9:20 : 20 But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the men of Shechem and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.
  • Isa 10:16 : 16 Therefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory, he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
  • Isa 15:1-2 : 1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste and brought to silence. 2 He has gone up to Bajith and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall wail over Nebo and over Medeba; on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

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  • Jer 48:45-46
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    84%

    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.

    46Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh perish, for your sons are taken captive and your daughters captive.

  • Num 21:26-27
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    81%

    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.

    27Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, Come to Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:

  • Num 21:29-30
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    78%

    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.

  • Isa 16:7-8
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    7Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab, everyone shall wail: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall you mourn; surely they are stricken.

    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.

  • Jer 48:34-36
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    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.

    35Moreover, I will cause to cease in Moab, says the LORD, him who offers in the high places, and him who burns incense to his gods.

    36Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres, because the riches he has acquired are perished.

  • Jer 48:20-21
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    20Moab is confounded, for it is broken down. Howl and cry; tell it in Arnon, that Moab is plundered.

    21Judgment has come upon the plain country: upon Holon, Jahazah, and Mephaath,

  • Amos 2:1-2
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    74%

    1Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

    2But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:

  • Jer 48:1-5
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    1Against Moab, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo, for it is ruined; Kiriathaim is confounded and captured; Misgab is confounded and dismayed.

    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.

    3A voice of crying shall be heard from Horonaim, plundering and great destruction.

    4Moab is destroyed; her little ones have set up a cry.

    5For on the ascent of Luhith they will go up with continual weeping; for on the descent of Horonaim, the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.

  • Isa 15:4
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    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.

  • Isa 9:18
    72%

    18For wickedness burns like the fire; it will devour the briers and thorns and will kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they will mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

  • Isa 15:1
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    1The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste and brought to silence.

  • Amos 1:14
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    14But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:

  • Ps 83:14
    71%

    14As the fire burns a forest, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire;

  • Num 21:13-15
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    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.

  • Num 31:10
    71%

    10And they burned all their cities where they dwelt, and all their fortified castles, with fire.

  • Jer 48:42
    71%

    42And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the LORD.

  • Jer 48:15-16
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    71%

    15Moab is plundered, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

    16The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hastens quickly.

  • Josh 13:10
    71%

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

  • Job 22:20
    71%

    20Our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumes.

  • Job 31:12
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    12For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

  • Deut 32:22
    71%

    22For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

  • Deut 29:23
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    23And that the whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath:

  • Isa 15:8
    70%

    8For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab; its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beerelim.

  • Joel 2:3
    70%

    3A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns; the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yes, and nothing shall escape them.

  • Ps 106:18
    70%

    18And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

  • Joel 1:19
    70%

    19O LORD, to you will I cry: for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.

  • Jer 48:8-9
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    8And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD has spoken.

    9Give wings to Moab, that it may flee and get away; for its cities shall be desolate, without any to dwell in them.

  • Zeph 2:9
    69%

    9Therefore as I live, says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even a breeding of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation: the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

  • Amos 1:12
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    12But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

  • Jer 48:25
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    25The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says the LORD.

  • Jer 48:18
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    18You daughter who inhabits Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon you, and he shall destroy your strongholds.

  • Job 41:21
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    21His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

  • Lam 4:11
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    11The LORD has accomplished his fury; he has poured out his fierce anger, and has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has devoured her foundations.