Difference between revisions of "Heshbon"

<p> '''Heshbon''' (''hĕsh'bŏn'' ), ''reason, device.'' [[A]] city of the Moabites, taken by Sihon, king of the Amorites, and made his capital; captured and occupied by the Israelites, &nbsp;Numbers 21:25-26; situated on the boundary between [[Reuben]] and Gad; rebuilt by Reuben and made a [[Levitical]] city, then being territorially a [[Gadite]] city. &nbsp;Numbers 32:3; &nbsp;Numbers 32:37; &nbsp;Deuteronomy 1:4; &nbsp;Deuteronomy 2:24-30; &nbsp;Deuteronomy 3:2; &nbsp;Deuteronomy 3:6; &nbsp;Deuteronomy 4:46; &nbsp;Deuteronomy 29:7; &nbsp;Joshua 9:10; &nbsp;Joshua 12:2; &nbsp;Joshua 12:5; &nbsp;Joshua 13:10-27; &nbsp;Joshua 21:39; &nbsp;Judges 11:19; &nbsp;Judges 11:26; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 6:81. In later times the [[Moabites]] regained possession of Heshbon, so that it is mentioned as a Moabitish town in the prophetic denunciations against that people. &nbsp;Isaiah 15:4; &nbsp;Isaiah 16:8-9; &nbsp;Jeremiah 48:2; &nbsp;Jeremiah 48:34; &nbsp;Jeremiah 48:45; &nbsp;Jeremiah 49:3. The ruins of the city still exist some 15 miles east of the northern end of the [[Dead]] sea, on the great table land of Moab. [[A]] small hill rises 200 feet above the general level, and upon this is Heshbon, now called Hesbân. East of the city are the remains of water-courses and an enormous cistern, or "fish-pond," which illustrates &nbsp;Song of [[Solomon]] 7:4. </p>