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Numbers 21:27
That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored.
Numbers 21:27 · Berean Standard Bible
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Numbers 21:27 in other translations
Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, “Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, "Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
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In context
24 And Israel put him to the sword and took possession of his land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok—but only up to the border of the Ammonites, because it was fortified.
25 Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.
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.
27 That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored.
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.
29 Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.
30 But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”
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