Numbers 21:23-30
Sihon would not allow
Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people
together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to
Jahaz; and he fought against Israel.
Israel struck him with the edge
of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to
the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
Israel took all these
cities: and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon,
and in all its towns.
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.
Therefore those who speak in
proverbs say,
- “Come to Heshbon.
- Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
-
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.
-
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.
-
We have shot at them.
- Heshbon has perished even to Dibon.
- We have laid waste even to Nophah,
- Which reaches to Madaba.”
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