Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.
Parallel translations
- WEB Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.
- KJV And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.
- NKJV So Israel took all these cities, and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all its villages.
- NASB Israel took all these cities, and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all her villages.
- NLT So Israel captured all the towns of the Amorites and settled in them, including the city of Heshbon and its surrounding villages.
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Quick answer
Israel captured all the Amorite cities, including Heshbon, and settled in them. The conquered land became Israel's dwelling.
Overview
Taking and occupying Sihon's cities, especially the capital Heshbon, secured a foothold east of the Jordan. This region would later be allotted to Reuben and Gad. The settlement shows the promise of inheritance beginning to be realized after the long wilderness years.
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- Num 32:33–42So Moses gave to the Gadites, to the Reubenites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan—the land including its cities and the territory surrounding them.
- Num 21:31So Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
- Jer 48:2There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.
- Jer 48:45“Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.
- Jer 48:34There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.
- Deut 2:12The Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land that the LORD gave them as their possession.)
- Song 7:4Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus.
- Isa 15:4Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.
- Isa 16:8–9For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.
- Amos 2:10And I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.
- Ezek 16:49Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.
- Ezek 16:46Your older sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters to your north; and your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters to your south.
- Ezek 16:53But I will restore Sodom and her daughters from captivity, as well as Samaria and her daughters. And I will restore you along with them.
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