Numbers 21:30
New International Version
“But we have overthrown them; Heshbon’s dominion has been destroyed all the way to Dibon. We have demolished them as far as Nophah, which extends to Medeba.”

New Living Translation
We have utterly destroyed them, from Heshbon to Dibon. We have completely wiped them out as far away as Nophah and Medeba.”

English Standard Version
So we overthrew them; Heshbon, as far as Dibon, perished; and we laid waste as far as Nophah; fire spread as far as Medeba.”

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

King James Bible
We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.

New King James Version
“But we have shot at them; Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon. Then we laid waste as far as Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.”

New American Standard Bible
“But we have shot them down with arrows, Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon, Then we have laid waste as far as Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.”

NASB 1995
“But we have cast them down, Heshbon is ruined as far as Dibon, Then we have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.”

NASB 1977
“But we have cast them down, Heshbon is ruined as far as Dibon, Then we have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.”

Legacy Standard Bible
But we have cast them down, Heshbon perishes as far as Dibon, And we have made desolate even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.”

Amplified Bible
“We have shot them down [with arrows]; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon, And we have laid them waste as far as Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.”

Christian Standard Bible
We threw them down; Heshbon has been destroyed as far as Dibon. We caused desolation as far as Nophah, which reaches as far as Medeba.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
We threw them down; Heshbon has been destroyed as far as Dibon. We caused desolation as far as Nophah, which reaches as far as Medeba.

American Standard Version
We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, And we have laid waste even unto Nophah, Which reacheth unto Medeba.

Contemporary English Version
We completely defeated Moab. The towns of Heshbon and Dibon, of Nophah and Medeba are ruined and gone.

English Revised Version
We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, And we have laid waste even unto Nophah, Which reacheth unto Medeba.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But we shot the Amorites full of arrows. From Heshbon to Dibon they all died. We destroyed everyone and everything between Nophah and Medeba."

Good News Translation
But now their descendants are destroyed, All the way from Heshbon to Dibon, From Nashim to Nophah, near Medeba."

International Standard Version
We've fired at them. Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon. We've destroyed them as far as Nophah even as far as Medeba.

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

NET Bible
We have overpowered them; Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon. We have shattered them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba."

New Heart English Bible
And we shot at them. Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon. And we have laid waste as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba."

Webster's Bible Translation
We have shot at them; Heshbon has perished even to Dibon, and we have laid them waste even to Nophah, which reacheth to Medeba.

World English Bible
We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.”
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And we shoot them; Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon, "" And we make desolate as far as Nophah, "" Which [is] as far as Medeba.”

Young's Literal Translation
And we shoot them, Perished hath Heshbon unto Dibon, And we make desolate unto Nophah, Which is unto Medeba.'

Smith's Literal Translation
And we shall shoot them; Heshbon was destroyed, even to Dibon, and the women even to Nophah, which is to Medeba.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Their yoke is perished from Hesebon unto Dibon, they came weary to Nophe, and unto Medaba.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Their yoke has been scattered from Heshbon even to Dibon. They have passed through, wearily, into Nophah, and as far as Medeba.”

New American Bible
From Heshbon to Dibon their dominion is no more; Ar is laid waste; fires blaze as far as Medeba.”

New Revised Standard Version
So their posterity perished from Heshbon to Dibon, and we laid waste until fire spread to Medeba.”
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
The fields of Heshbon have perished as far as Ribon, and have been laid waste as far as Lanhakh, which is in the wilderness.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And the fields of Kheshbon are destroyed unto Ribon and they are laid waste unto Lankakh that is in the wilderness.”
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
We have shot at them--Heshbon is perished--even unto Dibon, And we have laid waste even unto Nophah, Which reacheth unto Medeba.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And their seed shall perish from Esebon to Daebon; and their women have yet farther kindled a fire against Moab.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Defeat of Sihon
29Woe 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. 30But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”

Cross References
Deuteronomy 2:24-25
“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. / This very day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon all the nations under heaven. They will hear the reports of you and tremble in anguish because of you.”

Deuteronomy 3:6-7
We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city. / But all the livestock and plunder of the cities we carried off for ourselves.

Joshua 12:1-6
Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites struck down and whose lands they took beyond the Jordan to the east, from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the Arabah eastward: / Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along the middle of the valley, up to the Jabbok River (the border of the Ammonites), that is, half of Gilead, / as well as the Arabah east of the Sea of Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), eastward through Beth-jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah. ...

Judges 11:21-22
Then the LORD, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, who defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites who inhabited that country, / seizing all the land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.

Isaiah 15:1-9
This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night! / Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off. / In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping. ...

Isaiah 16:6-14
We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his overflowing arrogance. But his boasting is empty. / Therefore let Moab wail; let them wail together for Moab. Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, you who are utterly stricken. / For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea. ...

Jeremiah 48:1-47
Concerning Moab, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo, for it will be devastated. Kiriathaim will be captured and disgraced; the fortress will be shattered and dismantled. / There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you. / A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’ ...

Amos 2:1-3
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned to lime the bones of Edom’s king. / So I will send fire against Moab to consume the citadels of Kerioth. Moab will die in tumult, amid war cries and the sound of the ram’s horn. / I will cut off the ruler of Moab and kill all the officials with him,” says the LORD.

Psalm 60:8
Moab is My washbasin; upon Edom I toss My sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”

Psalm 108:9
Moab is My washbasin; upon Edom I toss My sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”

2 Kings 3:4-27
Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he would render to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams. / But after the death of Ahab, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel. / So at that time King Jehoram set out from Samaria and mobilized all Israel. ...

2 Samuel 8:2
David also defeated the Moabites, made them lie down on the ground, and measured them off with a cord. He measured off with two lengths those to be put to death, and with one length those to be spared. So the Moabites became subject to David and brought him tribute.

Romans 15:4
For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

1 Corinthians 10:11
Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

Hebrews 3:16-19
For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? / And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? / And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? ...


Treasury of Scripture

We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even to Dibon, and we have laid them waste even to Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.

have shot

Genesis 49:23
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:

2 Samuel 11:24
And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

Psalm 18:14
Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

Dibon

Numbers 32:34
And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

Joshua 13:17
Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon,

Isaiah 15:2,9
He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off…

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Numbers 21
1. Israel destroys the Canaanites at Hormah
4. The people murmuring are plagued with fiery serpents
7. They repenting are healed by a bronze serpent
10. Various journeys of the Israelites
21. Sihon is overcome
33. And Og














But we have overthrown them;
This phrase reflects the victory of the Israelites over the Amorites, a significant event in their journey to the Promised Land. The overthrowing of the Amorites demonstrates God's faithfulness in delivering His people and fulfilling His promises. This victory is a testament to the divine assistance the Israelites received, as they were often outnumbered or less equipped than their enemies. The language of overthrowing suggests a complete and decisive victory, emphasizing the power and might of God working through His people.

Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon.
Heshbon was the capital city of King Sihon of the Amorites. Its destruction signifies the fall of a major stronghold, marking a turning point in the Israelites' conquest. Dibon, located near the Arnon River, was another significant city in the region. The mention of these cities highlights the extent of the conquest, indicating that the Israelites' victory was not limited to a single battle but encompassed a broader campaign. This destruction also fulfills the earlier promise that God would give the land of the Amorites into the hands of Israel (Numbers 21:24).

We demolished them as far as Nophah,
The term "demolished" underscores the thoroughness of the Israelites' victory. Nophah is less well-known, and its exact location is uncertain, but it is believed to be in the vicinity of the other cities mentioned. The mention of Nophah suggests that the Israelites' campaign extended even further than the major cities, indicating a comprehensive defeat of the Amorite territories. This thoroughness in conquest is reminiscent of the complete victory God promises to His people when they follow His commands.

which reaches to Medeba.”
Medeba was a city located on the plateau east of the Jordan River. It is mentioned in other biblical texts, such as Isaiah 15:2 and Joshua 13:9, as part of the territory allotted to the tribe of Reuben. The inclusion of Medeba in this passage highlights the strategic importance of the region and the extent of the Israelite conquest. The phrase "which reaches to Medeba" suggests a far-reaching impact of the victory, extending the influence and control of the Israelites over a significant portion of the land. This expansion is part of the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham regarding the land his descendants would inherit (Genesis 15:18-21).

Persons / Places / Events
1. Heshbon
A significant Amorite city, previously ruled by King Sihon. It became a symbol of Israel's victory over the Amorites.

2. Dibon
A city located in the territory of Moab, often associated with the Moabite Stone, which records victories over Israel.

3. Nophah
A lesser-known location mentioned in the context of Israel's conquests, possibly a region or town near Heshbon.

4. Medeba
A city on the plateau of Moab, known for its strategic location and later mentioned in various biblical battles.

5. The Israelites
The people of God, led by Moses, who were journeying to the Promised Land and engaging in battles as they progressed.
Teaching Points
God's Faithfulness in Victory
The defeat of the Amorites and the capture of their cities demonstrate God's faithfulness in fulfilling His promises to Israel. Believers can trust in God's promises and His power to overcome obstacles in their lives.

The Importance of Obedience
Israel's victories were contingent upon their obedience to God's commands. Similarly, Christians are called to live in obedience to God's Word to experience His blessings.

Spiritual Warfare
Just as Israel faced physical battles, Christians face spiritual battles. Ephesians 6:10-18 encourages believers to put on the full armor of God to stand firm against spiritual adversaries.

God's Sovereignty Over Nations
The conquest of these cities illustrates God's sovereignty over all nations and His ability to use them for His purposes. This reminds believers of God's ultimate control over world events.Verse 30. - We have shot at them. וַגִּירָם. A poetical word of somewhat doubtful meaning. It is generally supposed to be a verbal form (first person plural imperf. Kal), from יָרָה, with an unusual suffix (cf. יִלְבָּשָׁם for יִלְבָּשֵׁם in Exodus 29:30). יָרָה has the primary meaning "to shoot at," the secondary, "to overthrow," as in Exodus 15:4. Others, however, derive the word from ארה, a root supposed to mean "burn." Even unto Dibon. See on Numbers 32:34. The site of Nophah, perhaps the Nobah of Judges 8:11, is unknown. Which reacheth unto Medeba. The reading is uncertain here as well as the meaning. The received text has אֵַשֶׁר עַד־מַידבָא, which gives no meaning, but the circle over the resh marks it as suspicious. The Septuagint (πῦρ ἐπ Μωάβ) and the Samaritan evidently read אֵשׁ, and this has been generally followed: "we have wasted even unto Nophah, - with fire unto Medeba." Medeba, of which the ruins are still known by the same name, lay five or six miles south-south-east of Heshbon. It was a fortress in the time of David (1 Chronicles 19:7) and of Omri, as appears from the Moabite stone.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But we have overthrown them;
וַנִּירָ֛ם (wan·nî·rām)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common plural | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3384: To flow as water, to lay, throw, to point out, to teach

Heshbon
חֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן (ḥeš·bō·wn)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 2809: Heshbon -- a place East of the Jordan

is destroyed
אָבַ֥ד (’ā·ḇaḏ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6: To wander away, lose oneself, to perish

as far as
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

Dibon.
דִּיב֑וֹן (dî·ḇō·wn)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 1769: Dibon -- a city in Moab, also a place in Judah

We demolished them
וַנַּשִּׁ֣ים (wan·naš·šîm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's 8074: To stun, devastate, stupefy

as
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

far as Nophah,
נֹ֔פַח (nō·p̄aḥ)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 5302: Nophah -- a city of Moab

which
אֲשֶׁ֖רׄ‪‬ (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

reaches to
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

Medeba.”
מֵֽידְבָֽא׃ (mê·ḏə·ḇā)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4311: Medeba -- a city in Moab


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