Devine Scripture

Numbers 21:28

Numbers chapter 21 · verse 28 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For a fire is gone out of Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon: It hath devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For a fire is gone out of Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon: It hath devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.

Context

v.27Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come ye to Heshbon; Let the city of Sihon be built and established:

v.28This passage

v.29Woe to thee, Moab! Thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: He hath given his sons as fugitives, And his daughters into captivity, Unto Sihon king of the Amorites.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Numbers 22:41

    And it came to pass in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from thence the utmost part of the people.

  • Amos 2:2

    But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;

  • Numbers 21:15

    And the slope of the valleys That inclineth toward the dwelling of Ar, And leaneth upon the border of Moab.

  • Jeremiah 48:45

    They that fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and hath devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

  • Amos 1:4

    But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.

  • Isaiah 15:1

    The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nought; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nought.