# חֶשְׁבּוֹן (cheshbon)

Israeli respelling: cheshbon. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2809. 37 Old Testament occurrences.

Cheshbon, a place East of the Jordan

King James renderings: Heshbon.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/cheshbon-h2809

## Occurrences

- [Numbers 21:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/25) — And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.
- [Numbers 21:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/26) — For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of h…
- [Numbers 21:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/27) — Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
- [Numbers 21:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/28) — 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 A…
- [Numbers 21:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/30) — We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.
- [Numbers 21:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/34) — And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to…
- [Numbers 32:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/3) — Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
- [Numbers 32:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/37) — And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,
- [Deuteronomy 1:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/1/4) — After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
- [Deuteronomy 2:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/24) — Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and…
- [Deuteronomy 2:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/26) — And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
- [Deuteronomy 2:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/30) — But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he mig…
- [Deuteronomy 3:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/3/2) — And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto hi…
- [Deuteronomy 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/3/6) — And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
- [Deuteronomy 4:46](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/46) — On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and t…
- [Deuteronomy 29:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/29/7) — And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:
- [Joshua 9:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/10) — And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, which wa…
- [Joshua 12:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/12/2) — Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of t…
- [Joshua 12:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/12/5) — And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the…
- [Joshua 13:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/13/10) — And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;
- [Joshua 13:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/13/17) — Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon,
- [Joshua 13:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/13/21) — And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the pri…
- [Joshua 13:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/13/26) — And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;
- [Joshua 13:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/13/27) — And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his bord…
- [Joshua 21:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/21/39) — Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.
- [Judges 11:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/11/19) — And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, throu…
- [Judges 11:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/11/26) — While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three…
- [1 Chronicles 6:81](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/6/81) — And Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.
- [Nehemiah 9:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/22) — Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of th…
- [Song of Solomon 7:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/7/4) — Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon w…
- [Isaiah 15:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/15/4) — And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his lif…
- [Isaiah 16:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/16/8) — For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they ar…
- [Isaiah 16:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/16/9) — Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shou…
- [Jeremiah 48:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/2) — There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also…
- [Jeremiah 48:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/34) — From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer o…
- [Jeremiah 48:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/45) — They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the mid…
- [Jeremiah 49:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/3) — Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for the…