Numbers 21:28

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Num 21:15 : 15 the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab."
  • Jer 48:45-46 : 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. 46 Woe to you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity.
  • Amos 1:4 : 4 but I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.
  • Amos 1:7 : 7 but I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it will devour its palaces.
  • Amos 1:10 : 10 but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it will devour its palaces."
  • Amos 1:12 : 12 but I will send a fire on Teman, and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah."
  • Amos 1:14 : 14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a storm in the day of the whirlwind;
  • Amos 2:2 : 2 but I will send a fire on Moab, and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;
  • Amos 2:5 : 5 But I will send a fire on Judah, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem."
  • Num 22:41 : 41 It happened in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.
  • Deut 2:9 : 9 Yahweh said to me, "Don't bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession."
  • Deut 2:18 : 18 "You are this day to pass over Ar, the border of Moab:
  • 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, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.
  • Isa 15:1-2 : 1 The burden of Moab: for in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. 2 They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off.

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  • Jer 48:45-46
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    45Those 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.

    46Woe to you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity.

  • Num 21:26-27
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    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 the Arnon.

    27Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, "Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;

  • Num 21:29-30
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    29Woe 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.

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

  • Isa 16:7-8
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    7Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken.

    8For 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.

  • Jer 48:34-36
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    34From 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.

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

    36Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres: therefore the abundance that he has gotten is perished.

  • Jer 48:20-21
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    20Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.

    21Judgment is come on the plain country, on Holon, and on Jahzah, and on Mephaath,

  • Amos 2:1-2
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    1Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Moab, yes, 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 on Moab, and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;

  • Jer 48:1-5
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    1Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down.

    2The 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.

    3The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!

    4Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

    5For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.

  • Isa 15:4
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    4Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble within them.

  • Isa 9:18
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    18For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

  • Isa 15:1
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    1The burden of Moab: for in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing.

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

  • Ps 83:14
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    14As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

  • Num 21:13-15
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    13From 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.

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

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

  • Num 31:10
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    10All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.

  • Jer 48:42
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    42Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against Yahweh.

  • Jer 48:15-16
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    15Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.

    16The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast.

  • Josh 13:10
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    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
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    20saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'

  • 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
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    22For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

  • Deut 29:23
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    23[and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh 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 Beer Elim.

  • Joel 2:3
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    3A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.

  • Ps 106:18
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    18A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.

  • Joel 1:19
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    19Yahweh, I cry to you, 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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    8The destroyer shall come on every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken.

    9Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.

  • Zeph 2:9
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    9Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.

  • Amos 1:12
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    12but I will send a fire on Teman, and it will 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 Yahweh.

  • Jer 48:18
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    18You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you, he has destroyed your strongholds.

  • Job 41:21
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    21His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.

  • Lam 4:11
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    11Yahweh has accomplished his wrath, he has poured out his fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations.