25 Israel took all the cities and lived in all these Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all its villages.

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28 For fire came out of Heshbon,
a flame from the city of Sihon.
It consumed Ar of Moab,
the lords of[a] Arnon’s heights.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 21:28 LXX reads Moab, and swallowed

30 We threw them down;
Heshbon has been destroyed as far as Dibon.[a](A)
We caused desolation as far as Nophah,
which reaches as far as Medeba.[b](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 21:30 LXX reads Their seed will perish from Heshbon; Vg reads Their yoke has perished from Heshbon
  2. Numbers 21:30 LXX reads Dibon. And their women have further kindled a fire against Moab; Hb uncertain

34 But the Lord said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have handed him over to you along with his whole army and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”(A)

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But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have handed him over to you along with his whole army and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites,(A) who lived in Heshbon.’

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We completely destroyed them, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying the men, women, and children of every city.

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22 You gave them kingdoms and peoples
and assigned them to be a boundary.
They took possession
of the land of Sihon[a] king of Heshbon
and of the land of Og king of Bashan.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 9:22 One Hb ms, LXX; other Hb mss, Vg read Sihon, even the land of the

Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;
their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz.(A)
Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out,
and they tremble.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 15:4 Lit out, he trembles within himself

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