Heshbon

The first 10 of 37 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Numbers

• Numbers 21:25

  Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.

• Numbers 21:26

  Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.

• Numbers 21:27

  That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored.

• Numbers 21:28

  For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights.

• Numbers 21:30

  But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”

• Numbers 21:34

  But the LORD said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”

• Numbers 32:3

  “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,

• Numbers 32:37

  The Reubenites built up Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 1:4

  This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and then at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.

• Deuteronomy 2:24

  “Arise, set out, and cross the Arnon Valley. See, I have delivered into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.