Numbers 21:27

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That is why those who speak in proverbs say,“Come to Heshbon, let it be built. Let the city of Sihon be established!

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 21:14 : 14 This is why it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD,“Waheb in Suphah and the wadis, the Arnon
  • Isa 14:4 : 4 you will taunt the king of Babylon with these words:“Look how the oppressor has met his end! Hostility has ceased!
  • Hab 2:6 : 6 The Proud Babylonians Are as Good as Dead“But all these nations will someday taunt him and ridicule him with proverbial sayings:‘Woe to the one who accumulates what does not belong to him(How long will this go on?)– he who gets rich by extortion!’

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  • Num 21:25-26
    2 verses
    84%

    25So Israel took all these cities; and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.

    26For Heshbon was the city of King Sihon of the Amorites. Now he had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken all of his land from his control, as far as the Arnon.

  • Num 21:28-30
    3 verses
    80%

    28For fire went out from 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 ruined, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters the prisoners of King Sihon of the Amorites.

    30We have overpowered them; Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon. We have shattered them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”

  • Josh 13:10
    74%

    10and all the cities of King Sihon of the Amorites who ruled in Heshbon, and ended at the Ammonite border.

  • Jer 48:45
    72%

    45In the shadows of the walls of Heshbon those trying to escape will stand helpless. For a fire will burst forth from Heshbon. Flames will shoot out from the former territory of Sihon. They will burn the foreheads of the people of Moab, the skulls of those war-loving people.

  • Num 21:20-21
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    20and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the country of Moab, near the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the wastelands.

    21The Victory over Sihon and Og Then Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, saying,

  • Josh 13:17
    71%

    17Heshbon and all its surrounding cities on the plain, including Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,

  • Deut 4:46
    71%

    46in the Transjordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.(It is he whom Moses and the Israelites attacked after they came out of Egypt.

  • Isa 15:4
    71%

    4The people of Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz. For this reason Moab’s soldiers shout in distress; their courage wavers.

  • Deut 2:24
    70%

    24“Get up, make your way across Wadi Arnon. Look! I have already delivered over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Go ahead! Take it! Engage him in war!

  • Deut 2:26
    70%

    26Defeat of Sihon, King of Heshbon Then I sent messengers from the Kedemoth wilderness to King Sihon of Heshbon with an offer of peace:

  • Judg 11:19-20
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    19Israel sent messengers to King Sihon, the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him,“Please allow us to pass through your land to our land.”

    20But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory. He assembled his whole army, camped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.

  • Isa 16:8
    70%

    8For the fields of Heshbon are dried up, as well as the vines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations trample all over its vines, which reach Jazer and spread to the wilderness; their shoots spread out and cross the sea.

  • Josh 13:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth.

    21It encompassed all the cities of the plain and the whole realm of King Sihon of the Amorites who ruled in Heshbon. Moses defeated him and the Midianite leaders Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba(they were subjects of Sihon and lived in his territory).

  • 1 Chr 6:81
    69%

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

  • Deut 29:7
    69%

    7When you came to this place King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to make war and we defeated them.

  • Deut 1:4
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    4This took place after the defeat of King Sihon of the Amorites, whose capital was in Heshbon, and King Og of Bashan, whose capital was in Ashtaroth, specifically in Edrei.

  • Josh 12:2
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    2King Sihon of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon and ruled from Aroer(on the edge of the Arnon Valley)– including the city in the middle of the valley and half of Gilead– all the way to the Jabbok Valley bordering Ammonite territory.

  • Deut 2:29-32
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    69%

    29just as the descendants of Esau who live at Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land the LORD our God is giving us.”

    30But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the LORD our God had made him obstinate and stubborn so that he might deliver him over to you this very day.

    31The LORD said to me,“Look! I have already begun to give over Sihon and his land to you. Start right now to take his land as your possession.”

    32When Sihon and all his troops emerged to encounter us in battle at Jahaz,

  • Josh 21:39
    68%

    39Heshbon, and Jazer, along with the grazing areas of each– a total of four cities.

  • Jer 48:34
    68%

    34Cries of anguish raised from Heshbon and Elealeh will be sounded as far as Jahaz. They will be sounded from Zoar as far as Horonaim and Eglath Shelishiyah. For even the waters of Nimrim will be dried up.

  • Num 21:23
    68%

    23But Sihon did not permit Israel to pass through his border; he gathered all his forces together and went out against Israel into the wilderness. When he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.

  • Deut 2:17
    68%

    17the LORD said to me,

  • Jer 48:2
    68%

    2People will not praise Moab any more. The enemy will capture Heshbon and plot how to destroy Moab, saying,‘Come, let’s put an end to that nation!’ City of Madmen, you will also be destroyed. A destructive army will march against you.

  • Ezek 21:20
    68%

    20Mark out the routes for the sword to take:“Rabbah of the Ammonites” and“Judah with Jerusalem in it.”

  • Num 32:37
    67%

    37The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

  • 1 Sam 30:28
    67%

    28for those in Aroer, Siphmoth, 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%

    21Now all Moab had heard that the kings were attacking, so everyone old enough to fight was mustered and placed at the border.

  • Josh 13:26-27
    2 verses
    67%

    26Their territory ran from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpah and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Debir.

    27It included the valley of Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, and the rest of the realm of King Sihon of Heshbon, the area east of the Jordan to the end of the Sea of Kinnereth.

  • Judg 11:26
    67%

    26Israel has been living in Heshbon and its nearby towns, in Aroer and its nearby towns, and in all the cities along the Arnon for three hundred years! Why did you not reclaim them during that time?

  • Josh 9:10
    67%

    10and all he did to the two Amorite kings on the other side of the Jordan– King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan in Ashtaroth.

  • Num 21:13-15
    3 verses
    66%

    13From there they moved on and camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the wilderness that extends from the regions of the Amorites, for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

    14This is why it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD,“Waheb in Suphah and the wadis, the Arnon

    15and the slope of the valleys that extends to the dwelling of Ar, and falls off at the border of Moab.”

  • Jer 49:3
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    3Wail, you people in Heshbon, because Ai in Ammon is destroyed. Cry out in anguish, you people in the villages surrounding Rabbah. Put on sackcloth and cry out in mourning. Run about covered with gashes. For your god Milcom will go into exile along with his priests and officials.

  • Prov 21:22
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    22A wise man went up against the city of the mighty and brought down the stronghold in which they trust.

  • 2 Chr 20:10
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    10Now the Ammonites, Moabites, and men from Mount Seir are coming! When Israel came from the land of Egypt, you did not allow them to invade these lands. They bypassed them and did not destroy them.

  • Num 23:7
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    7Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying,“Balak, the king of Moab, brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying,‘Come, pronounce a curse on Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.’

  • Jer 25:21
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    21all the people of Edom, Moab, Ammon;