HESHBON

Passages on this topic · 23

• Numbers 21:25

  Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.

• Numbers 21:26

  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.

• Numbers 21:27

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

• Numbers 21:28

  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.

• Numbers 21:29

  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.

• Numbers 21:30

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

• Numbers 21:31

  Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.

• Numbers 21:32

  Moses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its villages, and drove out the Amorites who were there.

• Numbers 21:33

  They turned and went up by the way of Bashan. Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

• Numbers 21:34

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Don’t fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people, and his land. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”

• Numbers 21:35

  So they struck him, with his sons and all his people, until there were no survivors; and they possessed his land.

• Numbers 32:37

  The children of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

• Deuteronomy 1:4

  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.

• Joshua 7:4

  So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.

• Joshua 21:38

  Out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Mahanaim with its suburbs,

• Joshua 21:39

  Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs: four cities in all.

• Isaiah 16:8

  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.

• Jeremiah 48:2

  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, will be brought to silence. The sword will pursue you.

• Jeremiah 48:34

  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 will become desolate.

• Jeremiah 48:35

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

• Jeremiah 49:1

  Of the children of Ammon. Yahweh says: “Has Israel no sons? has he no heir? Why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people dwell in its cities?

• Jeremiah 49:2

  Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters will be burned with fire: then Israel will possess those who possessed him,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 49:3

  “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 will go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.