Numbers 21:25-27

Lexham English Bible

²⁵ Israel took all these cities, and Israel inhabited all the cities of the Amorites,^[a] in Heshbon, and in all its environs.^{[b] 26} Because Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites,^[c] who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land from his hand until Arnon. ²⁷ Thus the ones who quote proverbs say,