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Numbers 21:21 סִיחֹ֥ן Sihon

Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

Numbers 21:23 סִיחֹ֣ן סִיחֹ֜ן Sihon

But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. Instead, he gathered his whole army and went out to confront Israel in the wilderness. When he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.

Numbers 21:26 סִיחֹ֛ן Sihon

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 סִיחֽוֹן׃ Sihon

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

Numbers 21:28 סִיחֹ֑ן Sihon

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 21:29 סִיחֽוֹן׃ Sihon

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.

Numbers 21:34 לְסִיחֹן֙ to Sihon

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 32:33 סִיחֹן֙ Sihon

So Moses gave to the Gadites, to the Reubenites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan—the land including its cities and the territory surrounding them.

Here: The Amorite king ruling from Heshbon, defeated when he refused Israel passage (Num 21:21–31).

Deuteronomy 1:4 סִיחֹן֙ Sihon

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 סִיחֹ֨ן Sihon

“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 סִיח֖וֹן Sihon

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

Deuteronomy 2:30 סִיחֹן֙ Sihon

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: The Amorite king who had taken the plateau north of the Arnon river from Moab (Num 21:26). Later Israelite poetry and prayer remembered him as a byword for a defeated enemy king.

Deuteronomy 2:31 סִיחֹ֖ן Sihon

Then the LORD said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”

Deuteronomy 2:32 סִיחֹ֨ן Sihon

So Sihon and his whole army came out for battle against us at Jahaz.

Deuteronomy 3:2 לְסִיחֹן֙ to Sihon

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 לְסִיחֹ֖ן to Sihon

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 סִיחֹן֙ Sihon

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 סִיחֹ֣ן Sihon

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

Deuteronomy 31:4 לְסִיח֥וֹן to Sihon

And the LORD will do to them as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, when He destroyed them along with their land.

Joshua 2:10 לְסִיחֹ֣ן to Sihon

For we have heard how the LORD dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites across the Jordan, whom you devoted to destruction.

Here: "To Sihon": Amorite king of Heshbon, who refused Israel passage and was defeated at Jahaz (Num 21:21–31; Deut 2:26–36).

Joshua 9:10 לְסִיחוֹן֙ to Sihon

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: 'To Sihon'. He was the Amorite king who refused Israel passage and was defeated at Jahaz (Num 21:21–31; Deut 2:26–36).

Joshua 12:2 סִיחוֹן֙ Sihon

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: The Amorite king Israel defeated at Jahaz (Num 21:21–31; Deut 2:24–37). His name heads the list as the first of the two kings east of the Jordan. The Hebrew has no verb here; he simply stands in apposition to 'these are the kings' in v.1.

Joshua 12:5 סִיח֥וֹן Sihon

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: The Amorite king to the south whose defeat is told in Numbers 21. He and Og are the two classic defeated kings of the land east of the Jordan.

Joshua 13:10 סִיחוֹן֙ Sihon

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

Here: The king Israel defeated on the way to Canaan (Numbers 21:21–31; Deuteronomy 2:24–37). By Joshua's time his name had become shorthand for that first great victory east of the Jordan.

Joshua 13:21 סִיחוֹן֙ סִיח֔וֹן Sihon

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 13:27 סִיחוֹן֙ Sihon

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: The Amorite king Israel defeated before crossing the Jordan (Num 21:21–31). His name serves as a shorthand for the land between the Arnon and Jabbok rivers and down into the Jordan valley.

Judges 11:19 סִיח֥וֹן Sihon

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 11:20 סִיח֤וֹן סִיחוֹן֙ Sihon

But Sihon would not trust Israel to pass through his territory. So he gathered all his people, encamped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.

Judges 11:21 סִיח֧וֹן Sihon

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,

1 Kings 4:19 סִיח֣וֹן׀ Sihon

Geber son of Uri in the land of Gilead, including the territories of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. There was also one governor in the land of Judah.

Nehemiah 9:22 סִיח֗וֹן Sihon

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: The Amorite king whose land lay east of the Jordan between the Arnon and Jabbok rivers. He refused to let Israel pass through and was defeated (Numbers 21:21–31; Deuteronomy 2:24–37).

Psalm 135:11 לְסִיח֤וֹן׀ to Sihon

Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan.

Psalm 136:19 לְ֭סִיחוֹן to Sihon

Sihon king of the Amorites His loving devotion endures forever.

Jeremiah 48:45 סִיח֔וֹן Sihon

“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.