Numbers 21:27
“Wherefore they that speake in prouerbes, say, Come into Heshbon: let the citie of Sihon bee built and prepared.”
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Numbers 21:27 Context
25And Israel tooke all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof. 26For Heshbon was the citie 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, euen vnto Arnon. 27Wherefore they that speake in prouerbes, say, Come into Heshbon: let the citie of Sihon bee built and prepared. 28For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the citie of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lordes of the high places of Arnon. 29Woe to thee, Moab, thou art vndone, O people of Chemosh: he hath giuen his sonnes that escaped, and his daughters, into captiuitie vnto Sihon King of the Amorites.
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Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
- King James Version
Therefore those who use proverbs say, "Come to Heshbon! Let it be built! So let the city of Sihon be established.
- New American Standard Version (1995)