Numbers 21:27

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

therefore those using similes say -- `Enter ye Heshbon, Let the city of Sihon be built and ready,

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 21:14 : 14 therefore it is said in a book, `The wars of Jehovah,' -- `Waheb in Suphah, And the brooks of Arnon;
  • Isa 14:4 : 4 That thou hast taken up this simile Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, How hath the exactor ceased,
  • Hab 2:6 : 6 Do not these -- all of them -- against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Wo `to' him who is multiplying `what is' not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 21:25-26
    2 verses
    84%

    25And Israel taketh all these cities, and Israel dwelleth in all the cities of the Amorite, in Heshbon, and in all its villages;

    26for Heshbon is a city of Sihon king of the Amorite, and he hath fought against the former king of Moab, and taketh all his land out of his hand, unto Arnon;

  • Num 21:28-30
    3 verses
    80%

    28For fire hath gone out from Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon, It hath consumed Ar of Moab, Owners of the high places of Arnon.

    29Wo to thee, O Moab, Thou hast perished, O people of Chemosh, He hath given his sons who escape -- Also his daughters -- Into captivity, to a king of the Amorite -- Sihon!

    30And we shoot them, Perished hath Heshbon unto Dibon, And we make desolate unto Nophah, Which `is' unto Medeba.'

  • Josh 13:10
    74%

    10and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorite, who reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the Bene-Ammon,

  • Jer 48:45
    72%

    45In the shadow of Heshbon stood powerless have fugitives, For fire hath gone forth from Heshbon, And a flame from within Sihon, And it consumeth the corner of Moab, And the crown of the sons of Shaon.

  • Num 21:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20and from Bamoth in the valley which `is' in the field of Moab `to' the top of Pisgah, which hath looked on the front of the wilderness.

    21And Israel sendeth messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorite, saying,

  • Josh 13:17
    71%

    17Heshbon, and all its cities which `are' in the plain, Dibon, and Bamoth-Baal, and Beth-Baal-Meon,

  • Deut 4:46
    71%

    46beyond the Jordan, in the valley over-against Beth-Peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorite, who is dwelling in Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel have smitten, in their coming out of Egypt,

  • Isa 15:4
    71%

    4And cry doth Heshbon and Elealeh, Unto Jahaz heard hath been their voice, Therefore the armed ones of Moab do shout, His life hath been grievous to him.

  • Deut 2:24
    70%

    24`Rise ye, journey and pass over the brook Arnon; see, I have given into thy hand Sihon king of Heshbon, the Amorite, and his land; begin to possess, and stir up thyself against him `in' battle.

  • Deut 2:26
    70%

    26`And I send messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth, unto Sihon king of Heshbon, -- words of peace -- saying,

  • Judg 11:19-20
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    70%

    19`And Israel sendeth messengers unto Sihon, king of the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and Israel saith to him, Let us pass over, we pray thee, through thy land, unto my place,

    20and Sihon hath not trusted Israel to pass over through his border, and Sihon gathereth all his people, and they encamp in Jahaz, and fight with Israel;

  • Isa 16:8
    70%

    8Because fields of Heshbon languish, The vine of Sibmah, Lords of nations did beat her choice vines, Unto Jazer they have come, They have wandered in a wilderness, Her plants have spread themselves, They have passed over a sea.

  • Josh 13:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20and Beth-Peor, and the springs of Pisgah, and Beth-Jeshimoth,

    21and all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorite, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote, with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, princes of Sihon, inhabitants of the land.

  • 1 Chr 6:81
    69%

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

  • Deut 29:7
    69%

    7`And ye come in unto this place, and Sihon king of Heshbon -- also Og king of Bashan -- doth come out to meet us, to battle, and we smite them,

  • Deut 1:4
    69%

    4after his smiting Sihon king of the Amorite who is dwelling in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan who is dwelling in Ashtaroth in Edrei,

  • Josh 12:2
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    2Sihon, king of the Amorite, who is dwelling in Heshbon, ruling from Aroer which `is' on the border of the brook Arnon, and the middle of the brook, and half of Gilead, and unto Jabok the brook, the border of the Bene-Ammon;

  • Deut 2:29-32
    4 verses
    69%

    29as the sons of Esau who are dwelling in Seir, and the Moabites who are dwelling in Ar, have done to me -- till that I pass over the Jordan, unto the land which Jehovah our God is giving to us.

    30`And Sihon king of Heshbon hath not been willing to let us pass over by him, for Jehovah thy God hath hardened his spirit, and strengthened his heart, so as to give him into thy hand as at this day.

    31`And Jehovah saith unto me, See, I have begun to give before thee Sihon and his land; begin to possess -- to possess his land.

    32`And Sihon cometh out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle to Jahaz;

  • Josh 21:39
    68%

    39Heshbon and its suburbs, Jazer and its suburbs -- `in' all four cities.

  • Jer 48:34
    68%

    34Because of the cry of Heshbon unto Elealeh, Unto Jahaz they have given their voice, From Zoar unto Horonaim, A heifer of the third `year', For even waters of Nimrim become desolations.

  • Num 21:23
    68%

    23And Sihon hath not suffered Israel to pass through his border, and Sihon gathereth all his people, and cometh out to meet Israel into the wilderness, and cometh in to Jahaz, and fighteth against Israel.

  • Deut 2:17
    68%

    17that Jehovah speaketh unto me, saying,

  • Jer 48:2
    68%

    2There is no more praise of Moab, In Heshbon they devised against it evil: Come, and we cut it off from `being' a nation, Also, O Madmen, thou art cut off, After thee goeth a sword.

  • Ezek 21:20
    68%

    20A way appoint for the coming of the sword, Unto Rabbath of the sons of Ammon, And to Judah, in Jerusalem -- the fenced.

  • Num 32:37
    67%

    37And the sons of Reuben have build Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,

  • 1 Sam 30:28
    67%

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

  • Ps 135:11
    67%

    11Even Sihon king of the Amorite, And Og king of Bashan, And all kingdoms of Canaan.

  • 2 Kgs 3:21
    67%

    21and all Moab have heard that the kings have come up to fight against them, and they are called together, from every one girding on a girdle and upward, and they stand by the border.

  • Josh 13:26-27
    2 verses
    67%

    26and from Heshbon unto Ramath-Mispeh, and Betonim, and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir,

    27and in the valley, Beth-Aram, and Beth-Nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and `its' border, unto the extremity of the sea of Chinnereth, beyond the Jordan, eastward.

  • Judg 11:26
    67%

    26In Israel's dwelling in Heshbon and in its towns, and in Aroer and in its towns, and in all the cities which `are' by the sides of Arnon three hundred years -- and wherefore have ye not delivered them in that time?

  • Josh 9:10
    67%

    10and all that He hath done to the two kings of the Amorite who `are' beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who `is' in Ashtaroth.

  • Num 21:13-15
    3 verses
    66%

    13From thence they have journeyed, and encamp beyond Arnon, which `is' in the wilderness which is coming out of the border of the Amorite, for Arnon `is' the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorite;

    14therefore it is said in a book, `The wars of Jehovah,' -- `Waheb in Suphah, And the brooks of Arnon;

    15And the spring of the brooks, Which turned aside to the dwelling of Ar, And hath leaned to the border of Moab.'

  • Jer 49:3
    66%

    3Howl, Heshbon, for spoiled is Ai, Cry, daughters of Rabbah, gird on sackcloth, Lament, and go to and fro by the hedges, For Malcam into captivity doth go, His priests and his princes together.

  • Prov 21:22
    66%

    22A city of the mighty hath the wise gone up, And bringeth down the strength of its confidence.

  • 2 Chr 20:10
    66%

    10`And now, lo, sons of Ammon, and Moab, and mount Seir, whom Thou didst not grant to Israel to go in against in their coming out of the land of Egypt, for they turned aside from off them and destroyed them not,

  • Num 23:7
    66%

    7And he taketh up his simile, and saith: `From Aram he doth lead me -- Balak king of Moab; From mountains of the east: Come -- curse for me Jacob, And come -- be indignant `with' Israel.

  • Jer 25:21
    66%

    21Edom, and Moab, and the sons of Ammon,