The Defeat of Sihon
Numbers 21:27
In 11 translations
- BSB
- That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored.
- KJV
- Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
- WEB
- Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, “Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
- ASV
- Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come ye to Heshbon; Let the city of Sihon be built and established:
- LSV
- therefore those using allegories say: “Enter Heshbon, || Let the city of Sihon be built and ready,
- YLT
- therefore those using similes say — 'Enter ye Heshbon, Let the city of Sihon be built and ready,
- DBY
- Therefore the poets say, Come to Heshbon; let the city of Sihon be built and established.
- DRC
- Therefore it is said in the proverb: Come into Hesebon, let the city of Sehon be built and set up:
- GNV
- Wherefore they that speake in prouerbes, say, Come to Heshbon, let the citie of Sihon bee built and repaired:
- JPS
- Wherefore they that speak in parables say: Come ye to Heshbon! let the city of Sihon be built and established!
- LXXE
- Therefore say they who deal in dark speeches, Come to Esebon, that the city of Seon may be built and prepared.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- עַל־כֵּ֛ן יֹאמְר֥וּ הַמֹּשְׁלִ֖ים בֹּ֣אוּ חֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן תִּבָּנֶ֥ה וְתִכּוֹנֵ֖ן עִ֥יר סִיחֽוֹן׃
- LXX-Br
- Διὰ τοῦτο ἐροῦσιν οἱ αἰνιγματισταὶ, ἔλθετε εἰς Ἐσεβὼν, ἵνα οἰκοδομηθῇ καὶ κατασκευασθῇ πόλις Σηών·
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Cross-references most cited first
- Isaiah 14:4you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
- Numbers 21:14Therefore it is stated in the Book of the Wars of the LORD: “Waheb in Suphah and the wadis of the Arnon,
- Habakkuk 2:6Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’
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