So Israel took all these cities, and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in 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.
- BSB Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and 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 32:33–42Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.
- Num 21:31Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
- Jer 48:2The 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, will be brought to silence. The sword will pursue you.
- Jer 48:45“Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, and a flame from the middle of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
- Jer 48:34From 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 will become desolate.
- Deut 2:12The Horites also lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)
- Song 7:4Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
- Isa 15:4Heshbon 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 16:8–9For 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.
- Amos 2:10Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
- Ezek 16:49“‘“Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
- Ezek 16:46Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
- Ezek 16:53“‘“I will turn again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your captives among them;
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