Skip to content
mannafest.faith
Read

Numbers 21:25

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

⋯

Commentary

2 voices

Voices on this verse

loading…

Original language & word study

14 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיִּקַּח֙vai.yi.Kachand it tookH3947 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478 →
אֵ֥ת'et<obj.>H853 →
כָּל־kol-allH3605 →
הֶעָרִ֖יםhe.'a.Rimthe citiesH5892 →
הָאֵ֑לֶּהha.'E.leh<the> theseH428 →
וַיֵּ֤שֶׁבvai.Ye.shevand it dweltH3427 →
יִשְׂרָאֵל֙Yis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478 →
בְּכָל־be.kholin allH3605 →
עָרֵ֣י'a.Rei[the] cities ofH5892 →
הָֽאֱמֹרִ֔יha.'e.mo.Rithe Amorite[s]H567 →
בְּחֶשְׁבּ֖וֹןbe.chesh.Bonin HeshbonH2809 →
וּבְכָל־u.ve.Khol-and in allH3605 →
בְּנֹתֶֽיהָ׃be.no.Tei.hadaughters itsH1323 →

The walk

Related verses

15 strongest cross-references

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Isaiah 15:4Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.Ezekiel 16:49Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.Numbers 32:33–42So 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.Ezekiel 16:53But I will restore Sodom and her daughters from captivity, as well as Samaria and her daughters. And I will restore you along with them.Numbers 21:31So Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.Isaiah 16:8–9For 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.Song of Solomon 7:4Your 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.Ezekiel 16:46Your older sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters to your north; and your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters to your south.Deuteronomy 2:12The Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land that the LORD gave them as their possession.)Jeremiah 48:34There 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 48:2There 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.Jeremiah 48:45“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.Amos 2:10And I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.1 Chronicles 6:81Heshbon, and Jazer, together with their pasturelands.Jeremiah 49:2Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned. Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors, says the LORD.

Featured studies on this passage

Ezekiel’s vision of the cherubim and the wheels: Ezekiel 1 & 10

Walks through Numbers 21

Angelology

The heavenly host — cherubim, seraphim, archangels, and armies — by class, office, and appearance.

Open the study →

Walks through Numbers 21

The Bronze Serpent

Christ's own chosen picture of his death. A four-moment story across 1,400 years: sin and plague, command and cure, idolatry and smashing, crucifixion and fulfillment.

Open the study →

The Sacrifice of Isaac — Caravaggio

Walks through Numbers 21

Types of Christ

The master typology index — 118 persons, events, institutions, and objects the Old Testament patterns toward Christ, every entry labeled by its warrant: the New Testament's own explicit claim, or the named tradition that drew it.

Open the study →

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Bronze Serpent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Numbers: the study guide →Read chapter 21 →The featured study →
Continue: Numbers 21 →