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class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/bsb/numbers/21.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#001320" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/niv/numbers/21.htm">New International Version</a></span><br />Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its surrounding settlements.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/numbers/21.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />So Israel captured all the towns of the Amorites and settled in them, including the city of Heshbon and its surrounding villages.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/numbers/21.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />And Israel took all these cities, and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/numbers/21.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/numbers/21.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/numbers/21.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />So Israel took all these cities, and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all its villages.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/numbers/21.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Israel took all these cities, and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all her villages.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/numbers/21.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Israel took all these cities and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all her villages.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/numbers/21.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />And Israel took all these cities and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all her villages.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/numbers/21.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />And Israel took all these cities, and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all her towns.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/numbers/21.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Israel took all these cities, and settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all its towns.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/numbers/21.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Israel took all the cities and lived in all these Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all its surrounding villages.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/numbers/21.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Israel took all the cities and lived in all these Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all its villages. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/numbers/21.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the towns thereof.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/numbers/21.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />The Israelites settled in the Amorite towns, including the capital city of Heshbon with its surrounding villages. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/numbers/21.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the towns thereof.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/numbers/21.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Israel took all those Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all its villages, and lived in them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/numbers/21.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />So the people of Israel captured all the Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all the surrounding towns, and settled in them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/numbers/21.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />So Israel captured all of those cities, occupied all the Amorite cities in Heshbon, and all its towns.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/numbers/21.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/numbers/21.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />So Israel took all these cities; and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/numbers/21.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Israel took all these cities: and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its towns.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/numbers/21.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/numbers/21.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/numbers/21.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And Israel takes all these cities, and Israel dwells in all the cities of the Amorite, in Heshbon and in all its villages;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/numbers/21.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And Israel taketh all these cities, and Israel dwelleth in all the cities of the Amorite, in Heshbon, and in all its villages;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/numbers/21.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And Israel will take all these cities: and Israel will dwell in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all her daughters.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/numbers/21.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />So Israel took all his cities, and dwelt in the cities of the Amorrhite, to wit, in Hesebon, and in the villages thereof. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/numbers/21.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Therefore, Israel took all his cities and lived in the cities of the Amorite, namely, in Heshbon and its villages.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/numbers/21.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Israel seized all the towns here, and Israel settled in all the towns of the Amorites, in Heshbon and all its dependencies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/numbers/21.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Israel took all these towns, and Israel settled in all the towns of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/numbers/21.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And Israel took all those cities; and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all the villages thereof.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/numbers/21.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And Israel took all these towns and Israel settled in all the towns of the Amorites, in Kheshbon and in all its villages.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/numbers/21.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And Israel took all these cities; and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the towns thereof.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/numbers/21.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And Israel took all their cities, and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Esebon, and in all cities belonging to it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/numbers/21-25.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yauBFvKLNNo?start=6720" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/numbers/21.htm">The Defeat of Sihon</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">24</span>And Israel put him to the sword and took possession of his land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok—but only up to the border of the Ammonites, because it was fortified. <span class="reftext">25</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">Israel</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’êṯ (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3947.htm" title="3947: way·yiq·qaḥ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To take. A primitive root; to take.">captured</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: kāl- (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">all</a> <a href="/hebrew/5892.htm" title="5892: he·‘ā·rîm (Art:: N-fp) -- Excitement. Or par; or ayar; from uwr a city in the widest sense.">the cities</a> <a href="/hebrew/428.htm" title="428: hā·’êl·leh (Art:: Pro-cp) -- These. Prolonged from 'el; these or those."></a> <a href="/hebrew/567.htm" title="567: hā·’ĕ·mō·rî (Art:: N-proper-ms) -- Perhaps mountain dwellers, a Canaanite tribe. ">of the Amorites</a> <a href="/hebrew/5892.htm" title="5892: ‘ā·rê (N-fpc) -- Excitement. Or par; or ayar; from uwr a city in the widest sense."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3427.htm" title="3427: way·yê·šeḇ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- A primitive root; properly, to sit down; by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry.">and occupied</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: bə·ḵāl (Prep-b:: N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">them,</a> <a href="/hebrew/2809.htm" title="2809: bə·ḥeš·bō·wn (Prep-b:: N-proper-fs) -- A place E. of the Jordan. The same as cheshbown; Cheshbon, a place East of the Jordan.">including Heshbon</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: ū·ḇə·ḵāl (Conj-w, Prep-b:: N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">and all</a> <a href="/hebrew/1323.htm" title="1323: bə·nō·ṯe·hā (N-fpc:: 3fs) -- Daughter. From banah; a daughter.">its villages.</a> </span><span class="reftext">26</span>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.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-32.htm">Deuteronomy 2:32-36</a></span><br />So Sihon and his whole army came out for battle against us at Jahaz. / And the LORD our God delivered him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and his whole army. / At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joshua/12-1.htm">Joshua 12:1-6</a></span><br />Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites struck down and whose lands they took beyond the Jordan to the east, from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the Arabah eastward: / 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, / as well as the Arabah east of the Sea of Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), eastward through Beth-jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/judges/11-19.htm">Judges 11:19-22</a></span><br />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.’ / But Sihon would not trust Israel to pass through his territory. So he gathered all his people, encamped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel. / 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, ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/135-10.htm">Psalm 135:10-12</a></span><br />He struck down many nations and slaughtered mighty kings: / Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan. / He gave their land as an inheritance, as a heritage to His people Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/136-17.htm">Psalm 136:17-22</a></span><br />He struck down great kings His loving devotion endures forever. / and slaughtered mighty kings—His loving devotion endures forever. / Sihon king of the Amorites His loving devotion endures forever. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/2-9.htm">Amos 2:9-10</a></span><br />Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below. / And 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nehemiah/9-22.htm">Nehemiah 9:22-25</a></span><br />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. / You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess. / So their descendants went in and possessed the land; You subdued before them the Canaanites dwelling in the land. You delivered into their hands the kings and peoples of the land, to do with them as they wished. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/3-1.htm">Deuteronomy 3:1-7</a></span><br />Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei. / 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.” / So the LORD our God also delivered Og king of Bashan and his whole army into our hands. We struck them down until no survivor was left. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joshua/24-8.htm">Joshua 24:8</a></span><br />Later, I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan. They fought against you, but I delivered them into your hand, that you should possess their land when I destroyed them before you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-7.htm">Deuteronomy 29:7-8</a></span><br />When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them. / We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/13-19.htm">Acts 13:19</a></span><br />And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/11-30.htm">Hebrews 11:30-31</a></span><br />By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days. / By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies in peace, did not perish with those who were disobedient.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/15-4.htm">Romans 15:4</a></span><br />For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-11.htm">1 Corinthians 10:11</a></span><br />Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/7-45.htm">Acts 7:45</a></span><br />And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.</p><p class="hdg">dwelt</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/21-31.htm">Numbers 21:31</a></b></br> Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/32-33.htm">Numbers 32:33-42</a></b></br> And Moses gave unto them, <i>even</i> to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, <i>even</i> the cities of the country round about… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/2-12.htm">Deuteronomy 2:12</a></b></br> The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.</p><p class="hdg">in Heshbon.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/songs/7-4.htm">Song of Solomon 7:4</a></b></br> Thy neck <i>is</i> as a tower of ivory; thine eyes <i>like</i> the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose <i>is</i> as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/15-4.htm">Isaiah 15:4</a></b></br> And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard <i>even</i> unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/16-8.htm">Isaiah 16:8,9</a></b></br> For the fields of Heshbon languish, <i>and</i> the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come <i>even</i> unto Jazer, they wandered <i>through</i> the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea… </p><p class="hdg">villages.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/16-46.htm">Ezekiel 16:46,49,53</a></b></br> And thine elder sister <i>is</i> Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, <i>is</i> Sodom and her daughters… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/numbers/21-21.htm">Amorite</a> <a href="/numbers/21-21.htm">Amorites</a> <a href="/numbers/21-1.htm">Captured</a> <a href="/numbers/21-3.htm">Cities</a> <a href="/leviticus/21-3.htm">Dependent</a> <a href="/numbers/13-29.htm">Dwelleth</a> <a href="/numbers/21-1.htm">Dwelt</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49-3.htm">Heshbon</a> <a href="/numbers/3-39.htm">Including</a> <a href="/exodus/38-24.htm">Occupied</a> <a href="/numbers/10-31.htm">Places</a> <a href="/numbers/11-9.htm">Settled</a> <a href="/genesis/36-43.htm">Settlements</a> <a href="/numbers/16-13.htm">Small</a> <a href="/numbers/4-32.htm">Surrounding</a> <a href="/numbers/20-19.htm">Thereof</a> <a href="/numbers/21-3.htm">Towns</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-31.htm">Villages</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/numbers/21-26.htm">Amorite</a> <a href="/numbers/21-26.htm">Amorites</a> <a href="/numbers/21-32.htm">Captured</a> <a href="/numbers/24-19.htm">Cities</a> <a href="/numbers/21-32.htm">Dependent</a> <a href="/numbers/21-31.htm">Dwelleth</a> <a href="/numbers/21-31.htm">Dwelt</a> <a href="/numbers/21-27.htm">Heshbon</a> <a href="/numbers/31-11.htm">Including</a> <a href="/joshua/8-7.htm">Occupied</a> <a href="/numbers/21-28.htm">Places</a> <a href="/numbers/21-31.htm">Settled</a> <a href="/numbers/21-32.htm">Settlements</a> <a href="/numbers/22-18.htm">Small</a> <a href="/numbers/21-32.htm">Surrounding</a> <a href="/numbers/21-32.htm">Thereof</a> <a href="/numbers/21-32.htm">Towns</a> <a href="/numbers/21-32.htm">Villages</a><div class="vheading2">Numbers 21</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/21-1.htm">Israel destroys the Canaanites at Hormah</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/21-4.htm">The people murmuring are plagued with fiery serpents</a></span><br><span class="reftext">7. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/21-7.htm">They repenting are healed by a bronze serpent</a></span><br><span class="reftext">10. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/21-10.htm">Various journeys of the Israelites</a></span><br><span class="reftext">21. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/21-21.htm">Sihon is overcome</a></span><br><span class="reftext">33. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/21-33.htm">And Og</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The Amorites were a powerful Canaanite tribe, and their defeat marked a crucial step in Israel's journey to the Promised Land. This victory fulfilled God's promise to give the land of the Amorites into Israel's hands (<a href="/genesis/15-16.htm">Genesis 15:16</a>). The conquest of these cities demonstrated God's faithfulness and power, as well as His judgment against the Amorites for their iniquity. The victory also served as a precursor to the larger conquests in Canaan, showcasing God's provision and guidance.<p><b>and occupied them</b><br>The occupation of the Amorite cities signifies a transition from nomadic life to settlement, a key development in Israel's history. This occupation was not just a military achievement but also a fulfillment of God's covenant promise to Abraham regarding the land (<a href="/genesis/12-7.htm">Genesis 12:7</a>). It symbolizes the beginning of Israel's establishment as a nation in a land of their own, foreshadowing the eventual settlement in Canaan. The occupation also involved the Israelites taking over existing infrastructure, which would have been a strategic advantage.<p><b>including Heshbon</b><br>Heshbon was a significant city, previously the capital of King Sihon of the Amorites. Its capture was a notable victory, as it was a fortified city and a center of power. The city is mentioned in other biblical texts, such as <a href="/isaiah/15-4.htm">Isaiah 15:4</a> and <a href="/jeremiah/48-2.htm">Jeremiah 48:2</a>, indicating its continued importance in the region. The capture of Heshbon demonstrated the weakening of Amorite power and the strategic advantage gained by Israel. It also served as a testament to God's deliverance and the fulfillment of His promises.<p><b>and all its villages</b><br>The mention of villages indicates the comprehensive nature of Israel's conquest. It wasn't just the major cities that were captured, but also the surrounding smaller settlements. This thorough conquest ensured control over the entire region, preventing any resurgence of Amorite power. The inclusion of villages highlights the extent of the land now under Israelite control, emphasizing the completeness of God's provision. It also reflects the transition from a wandering people to a settled nation, as they began to inhabit and cultivate the land.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The nation chosen by God, consisting of the descendants of Jacob, who are journeying to the Promised Land.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/a/amorites.htm">Amorites</a></b><br>A group of ancient people living in Canaan, known for their opposition to Israel. They were defeated by Israel under God's guidance.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/h/heshbon.htm">Heshbon</a></b><br>A significant city of the Amorites, which became a possession of Israel after their victory.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a></b><br>The leader of Israel, who guided them through the wilderness and led them in battles as directed by God.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_conquest.htm">The Conquest</a></b><br>The event where Israel, under divine command, took possession of the Amorite cities, marking a step towards the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_faithfulness_to_his_promises.htm">God's Faithfulness to His Promises</a></b><br>The conquest of the Amorite cities is a testament to God's faithfulness in fulfilling His promises to Abraham and his descendants.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/d/divine_guidance_in_battles.htm">Divine Guidance in Battles</a></b><br>Israel's victory over the Amorites was not due to their own strength but because of God's guidance and intervention. This teaches us to rely on God in our own battles.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/i/inheritance_and_possession.htm">Inheritance and Possession</a></b><br>Just as Israel took possession of the land, believers are called to take hold of the spiritual inheritance promised in Christ.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/o/obedience_and_trust.htm">Obedience and Trust</a></b><br>Israel's success was contingent upon their obedience to God's commands. Similarly, our spiritual victories depend on our obedience and trust in God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_over_nations.htm">God's Sovereignty Over Nations</a></b><br>The defeat of the Amorites demonstrates God's sovereignty over all nations and His ability to orchestrate events for His purposes.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_numbers_21.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Numbers 21</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/who_was_sihon,_king_of_the_amorites.htm">Who was Sihon, king of the Amorites?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_hamath's_border_in_israel_historical.htm">Are there historical records outside the Bible confirming the entrance to Hamath (v. 8) as part of Israel's border, or is it solely a biblical claim?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_of_israel's_defeat_of_sihon.htm">Numbers 21:23-24 - Is there any archaeological or historical corroboration for Israel's defeat of King Sihon and the confiscation of his territory?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what's_galilee's_role_in_the_bible.htm">Why did God command killing Midianites, including children?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/numbers/21.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(25) <span class= "bld">And Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites.</span>--If, as appears most probable, this and the thirty-first verse form a part of the original narrative, the word which is rendered <span class= "ital">dwelt </span>should be rendered <span class= "ital">sojourned, </span>or <span class= "ital">abode, </span>and understood, in accordance with the frequent use of the word (as, <span class= "ital">e.g., </span>in <a href="/numbers/22-5.htm" title="He sent messengers therefore to Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:">Numbers 22:5</a>; <a href="/numbers/22-8.htm" title="And he said to them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak to me: and the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.">Numbers 22:8</a>), of a temporary occupation or encampment. The permanent occupation of the eastern side of the Jordan by the Israelites was subsequent to the death of Moses.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/numbers/21.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 25.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And Israel dwelt in all</span> <span class="cmt_word">the cities of the Amorites.</span> The territory overrun at this time was about fifty miles north and south, by nearly thirty east and west. It was not permanently occupied until a somewhat later period (<a href="/numbers/32-33.htm">Numbers 32:33</a>); but we may suppose that the flocks and herds, with sufficient forces to guard them, spread themselves at once over the broad pasture lands. Heshbon, and all the villages, thereof. Literally, "the daughters thereof. By a similar figure we speak of a "mother city." Heshbon occupied a central position in the kingdom of Sihon, half way between Arnon and Jabbok, and about eighteen miles eastward of the point where Jordan falls into the Salt Lake; it stood on a table-land nearly 3000 feet above the sea, and had been made his city (i.e. his capital) by Sihon at the time of his victories over Moab. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/numbers/21-25.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Israel</span><br /><span class="heb">יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל</span> <span class="translit">(yiś·rā·’êl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> </span><span class="str2">Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc</span><br /><br /><span class="word">captured</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיִּקַּח֙</span> <span class="translit">(way·yiq·qaḥ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3947.htm">Strong's 3947: </a> </span><span class="str2">To take</span><br /><br /><span class="word">all</span><br /><span class="heb">כָּל־</span> <span class="translit">(kāl-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the cities</span><br /><span class="heb">הֶעָרִ֖ים</span> <span class="translit">(he·‘ā·rîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - feminine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5892.htm">Strong's 5892: </a> </span><span class="str2">Excitement</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of the Amorites</span><br /><span class="heb">הָֽאֱמֹרִ֔י</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’ĕ·mō·rî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_567.htm">Strong's 567: </a> </span><span class="str2">Amorites -- perhaps 'mountain dwellers', a Canaanite tribe</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and occupied</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיֵּ֤שֶׁב</span> <span class="translit">(way·yê·šeḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3427.htm">Strong's 3427: </a> </span><span class="str2">To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[them],</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּכָל־</span> <span class="translit">(bə·ḵāl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">including Heshbon</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּחֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן</span> <span class="translit">(bə·ḥeš·bō·wn)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2809.htm">Strong's 2809: </a> </span><span class="str2">Heshbon -- a place East of the Jordan</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and all</span><br /><span class="heb">וּבְכָל־</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḇə·ḵāl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">its villages.</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּנֹתֶֽיהָ׃</span> <span class="translit">(bə·nō·ṯe·hā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1323.htm">Strong's 1323: </a> </span><span class="str2">A daughter</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/numbers/21-25.htm">Numbers 21:25 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/numbers/21-25.htm">Numbers 21:25 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/numbers/21-25.htm">Numbers 21:25 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/numbers/21-25.htm">Numbers 21:25 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/numbers/21-25.htm">Numbers 21:25 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/numbers/21-25.htm">Numbers 21:25 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/numbers/21-25.htm">Numbers 21:25 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/numbers/21-25.htm">Numbers 21:25 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/numbers/21-25.htm">Numbers 21:25 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/numbers/21-25.htm">Numbers 21:25 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/numbers/21-25.htm">OT Law: Numbers 21:25 Israel took all these cities: and Israel (Nu Num.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/numbers/21-24.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Numbers 21:24"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Numbers 21:24" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/numbers/21-26.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Numbers 21:26"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Numbers 21:26" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>