חֶשְׁבּוֹן

Numbers 21:25 בְּחֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן in Heshbon

Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.

Numbers 21:26 חֶשְׁבּ֔וֹן Heshbon

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.

Numbers 21:27 חֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן Heshbon

That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored.

Numbers 21:28 מֵֽחֶשְׁבּ֔וֹן from Heshbon

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.

Numbers 21:30 חֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן Heshbon

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

Numbers 21:34 בְּחֶשְׁבּֽוֹן׃ in Heshbon

But the LORD said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”

Numbers 32:3 וְחֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן and Heshbon

“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,

Here: The royal city of Sihon, king of the Amorites (Num 21:26). It is the most important name on the list. Taking it was the high point of Israel's victory east of the Jordan, and an old victory song about it is quoted in Num 21:27–30.

Numbers 32:37 חֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן Heshbon

The Reubenites built up Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

Here: The former royal city of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and the best-known town on the plateau. It heads the Reubenite list.

Deuteronomy 1:4 בְּחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן in Heshbon

This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and then at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.

Deuteronomy 2:24 חֶשְׁבּ֧וֹן Heshbon

“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.

Deuteronomy 2:26 חֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן Heshbon

So from the Wilderness of Kedemoth I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon, saying,

Deuteronomy 2:30 חֶשְׁבּ֔וֹן Heshbon

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day.

Here: Sihon's capital in Transjordan (the land east of the Jordan), traditionally identified with Tell Hesban in modern Jordan.

Deuteronomy 3:2 בְּחֶשְׁבּֽוֹן׃ in Heshbon

But the LORD said to me, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”

Deuteronomy 3:6 חֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן Heshbon

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

Deuteronomy 4:46 בְּחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן in Heshbon

while they were in the valley across the Jordan facing Beth-peor in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses and the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 29:7 חֶ֠שְׁבּוֹן Heshbon

When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.

Joshua 9:10 חֶשְׁבּ֔וֹן Heshbon

and all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites beyond the Jordan—Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth.

Here: Sihon's capital on the plateau east of the Dead Sea's northern end, which he had taken from Moab according to Numbers 21:26. It is usually linked with Tell Ḥesban in Jordan.

Joshua 12:2 בְּחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן in Heshbon

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,

Here: Sihon's capital on the plateau north of the Arnon. Num 21:26 says he had taken it from Moab. Usually identified with Tell Hesban in Jordan.

Joshua 12:5 חֶשְׁבּֽוֹן׃ Heshbon

He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan up to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

Here: Sihon's capital on the plateau east of the north end of the Dead Sea. It is usually linked with Tell Hesban, though remains there from the Late Bronze Age are thin.

Joshua 13:10 בְּחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן in Heshbon

and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the Ammonites;

Here: Sihon's capital on the plateau north of the Arnon, which he had taken from Moab (Numbers 21:26). Its name probably comes from a root meaning "to reckon" or "to devise."

Joshua 13:17 חֶשְׁבּ֥וֹן Heshbon

to Heshbon and all its cities on the plateau, including Dibon, Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon,

Joshua 13:21 בְּחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן in Heshbon

all the cities of the plateau and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon until Moses killed him and the chiefs of Midian (Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba), the princes of Sihon who lived in the land.

Joshua 13:26 וּמֵחֶשְׁבּ֛וֹן and from Heshbon

the territory from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;

Joshua 13:27 חֶשְׁבּ֔וֹן Heshbon

and in the valley, Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, with the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon (the territory on the east side of the Jordan up to the edge of the Sea of Chinnereth).

Here: Sihon's capital on the plateau east of the Jordan (Num 21:26). Usually identified with Tell Hesban.

Joshua 21:39 חֶשְׁבּוֹן֙ Heshbon

Heshbon, and Jazer—four cities in all, together with their pasturelands.

Here: A major town on the plateau east of the Jordan, remembered as the former royal city of Sihon, the Amorite king Israel defeated (Numbers 21:21–31). Now it becomes a home for Levites.

Judges 11:19 חֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן Heshbon

And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land into our own place.’

Judges 11:26 בְּחֶשְׁבּ֨וֹן in Heshbon

For three hundred years Israel has lived in Heshbon, Aroer, and their villages, as well as all the cities along the banks of the Arnon. Why did you not take them back during that time?

1 Chronicles 6:81 חֶשְׁבּוֹן֙ Heshbon

Heshbon, and Jazer, together with their pasturelands.

Nehemiah 9:22 חֶשְׁבּ֔וֹן Heshbon

You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.

Here: Sihon's capital on the plateau east of the Jordan, usually identified with Tell Hesban in modern Jordan. Sihon had taken it from Moab.

Song of Songs 7:4 בְּחֶשְׁבּ֗וֹן in Heshbon

Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus.

Isaiah 15:4 חֶשְׁבּוֹן֙ Heshbon

Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.

Isaiah 16:8 חֶשְׁבּ֨וֹן Heshbon

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.

Isaiah 16:9 חֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן O Heshbon

So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.

Jeremiah 48:2 בְּחֶשְׁבּ֗וֹן in Heshbon

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.

Here: A city on Moab's northern frontier, placed first for emphasis: 'in Heshbon, of all places'. Its name sounds like the Hebrew word for 'reckoning' and sets up the pun with the next verb.

Jeremiah 48:34 חֶשְׁבּ֜וֹן Heshbon

There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.

Jeremiah 48:45 חֶשְׁבּ֛וֹן מֵחֶשְׁבּ֗וֹן Heshbon, from Heshbon

“Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.

Jeremiah 49:3 חֶשְׁבּ֜וֹן O Heshbon

Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.

Here: A city on the plateau about 20 km southwest of Rabbah. It was a border town that changed hands between Amorites, Israel, Moab and Ammon. Here it is called on to lament the disaster coming on its Ammonite neighbours.