◄ Numbers 21:27 ►
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Good News Translation
That is why the poets sing, "Come to Heshbon, to King Sihon's city! We want to see it rebuilt and restored.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore the ballad singers say, “Come to Heshbon, let it be built; let the city of Sihon be established.

Contemporary English Version
That's why the Amorites had written this poem about Heshbon: Come and rebuild Heshbon, King Sihon's capital city!

New American Bible
That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt, let Sihon’s city be firmly constructed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore it is said in the proverb: Come into Hesebon, let the city of Sehon be built and set up:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Therefore it is said in the proverb: Come into Hesebon, let the city of Sehon be built and set up:

Numbers 21:14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord: As he did in the Red Sea, so will he do in the streams of Arnon.

Isaiah 14:4 Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and shalt say: How is the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath ceased?

Habakkuk 2:6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a dark speech concerning him: and it shall be said: Woe to him that heapeth together that which is not his own? how long also doth he load himself with thick clay?

Context
The Defeat of Sihon
…26Hesebon was the city of Sehon the king of the Amorrhites, who fought against the king of Moab: and took all the land, that had been of his dominion, as far as the Arnon. 27Therefore it is said in the proverb: Come into Hesebon, let the city of Sehon be built and set up:28A fire is gone out of Hesebon, a flame from the city of Sehon, and hath consumed Ar of the Moabites, and the inhabitants of the high places of the Arnon.…
Cross References
Numbers 21:26
Hesebon was the city of Sehon the king of the Amorrhites, who fought against the king of Moab: and took all the land, that had been of his dominion, as far as the Arnon.

Numbers 21:28
A fire is gone out of Hesebon, a flame from the city of Sehon, and hath consumed Ar of the Moabites, and the inhabitants of the high places of the Arnon.

Nehemiah 7:1
Now after the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and numbered the porters and singing men, and Levites:

Numbers 21:26
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