Numbers 21:25

25 Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its surrounding settlements.

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Numbers 21:25 in Other Translations

KJV

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

ESV

25 And Israel took all these cities, and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.

NLT

25 So Israel captured all the towns of the Amorites and settled in them, including the city of Heshbon and its surrounding villages.

MSG

25 Israel took and occupied all the Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all its surrounding villages.

CSB

25 Israel took all the cities and lived in all these Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all its villages.

Numbers 21:25 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 21:25

And Israel took all these cities
Which lay between the rivers Arnon and Jabbok; their particular names may be seen in ( Numbers 32:3 Numbers 32:34-38 ) ,

and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites;
being given to the Reubenites and Gadites, who inhabited them, as their possession and inheritance, ( Numbers 32:2 Numbers 32:33 ) ( Deuteronomy 3:12 Deuteronomy 3:16 ) :

in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof;
or "daughters thereof" {q}. Heshbon was the metropolis or mother city, and all the towns and villages adjacent were as daughters to it; of which city more is said in the following verses, (See Gill on Isaiah 15:4).

FOOTNOTES:

F17 (hytnb) "filiabus ejus", Montanus, Munster, Fagius, Grotius.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Numbers 21:25 In-Context

23 But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. He mustered his entire army and marched out into the wilderness against Israel. When he reached Jahaz, he fought with Israel.

24 Israel, however, put him to the sword and took over his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, but only as far as the Ammonites, because their border was fortified.

25 Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its surrounding settlements.

26 Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken from him all his land as far as the Arnon.

27 That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon and let it be rebuilt; let Sihon’s city be restored.

Cross References 3

1. Numbers 13:29; Judges 10:11; Amos 2:10
2. Judges 11:26
3. ver 30; Numbers 32:3; Deuteronomy 1:4; Deuteronomy 29:7; Joshua 9:10; Joshua 12:2; Isaiah 15:4; Isaiah 16:8; Jeremiah 48:2,34