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• SihonPeople

  Sihon was an Amorite king who ruled the territory east of the Jordan River from his capital at Heshbon near the end of the wilderness period following the Exodus. He refused to let Israel pass through his land, fought against them, and was defeated (Numbers 21).

• Deuteronomy 2Bible

  Deuteronomy 2 is part of Moses' retrospective account of the wilderness journey. It recounts how Israel passed by the lands of Edom, Moab, and Ammon without conflict, then defeated Sihon king of Heshbon and took his land.

• DibonBible

  Dibon was a city of Moab on the plateau east of the Dead Sea, north of the Arnon Valley. It appears in the accounts of Israel's settlement east of the Jordan and in the prophecies against Moab, and it is known as the site where the Mesha Stele was discovered.

• Deuteronomy 3Bible

  Deuteronomy 3 recounts Moses' recollection of the defeat of Og king of Bashan and the distribution of the land east of the Jordan among the tribes, and it relates how his prayer to enter the Promised Land was refused.

• Jeremiah 48Bible

  Jeremiah 48, part of the oracles against the nations, laments the destruction of Moab. It names Moab's pride and its worship of Chemosh as the reasons for judgment and closes with a promise of restoration in the latter days.

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Verses in the King James Version 37, showing 6

• Numbers 21:25

  And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.

• Numbers 21:26

  For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.

• Numbers 21:27

  Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:

• Numbers 21:28

  For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.

• Numbers 21:30

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

• Numbers 21:34

  And the Lord said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.

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