Numbers 21:27

World English Bible (2000)

Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, "Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 21:14 : 14 Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Yahweh, "Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,
  • Isa 14:4 : 4 that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!"
  • Hab 2:6 : 6 Won't 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, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'

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  • Num 21:25-26
    2 verses
    84%

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

    26 For 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 the Arnon.

  • Num 21:28-30
    3 verses
    80%

    28 for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.

    29 Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites.

    30 We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba."

  • Josh 13:10
    74%

    10 and 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%

    45 Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

  • Num 21:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.

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

  • Josh 13:17
    71%

    17 Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,

  • Deut 4:46
    71%

    46 beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck, when they came forth out of Egypt.

  • Isa 15:4
    71%

    4 Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble within them.

  • Deut 2:24
    70%

    24 "Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.

  • Deut 2:26
    70%

    26 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%

    19 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, 'Please let us pass through your land to my place.'

    20 But Sihon didn't trust Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

  • Isa 16:8
    70%

    8 For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.

  • Josh 13:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

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

    21 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 chiefs of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.

  • 1 Chr 6:81
    69%

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

  • Deut 29:7
    69%

    7 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:

  • Deut 1:4
    69%

    4 after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.

  • Josh 12:2
    69%

    2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, 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 to me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us."

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

    31 Yahweh said to me, "Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you: begin to possess, that you may inherit his land."

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

  • Josh 21:39
    68%

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

  • Jer 48:34
    68%

    34 From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate.

  • Num 21:23
    68%

    23 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 came to Jahaz; and he fought against Israel.

  • Deut 2:17
    68%

    17 that Yahweh spoke to me, saying,

  • Jer 48:2
    68%

    2 The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue you.

  • Ezek 21:20
    68%

    20 You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

  • Num 32:37
    67%

    37 The children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,

  • 1 Sam 30:28
    67%

    28 and to those who were in Aroer, and to those who were in Siphmoth, and to those who were in Eshtemoa,

  • Ps 135:11
    67%

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

  • 2 Kgs 3:21
    67%

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

  • Josh 13:26-27
    2 verses
    67%

    26 and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;

    27 and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan's bank, to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.

  • Judg 11:26
    67%

    26 While Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of the Arnon, three hundred years; why didn't you recover them within that time?

  • Josh 9:10
    67%

    10 and 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%

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

    14 Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Yahweh, "Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,

    15 the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab."

  • Jer 49:3
    66%

    3 Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, clothe yourself in sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

  • Prov 21:22
    66%

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

  • 2 Chr 20:10
    66%

    10 Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and didn't destroy them;

  • Num 23:7
    66%

    7 He took up his parable, and said, "From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

  • Jer 25:21
    66%

    21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;