Bible Location
Meaning: invention; industry · 37 cross references · Modern-day map available
Heshbon was a major transjordanian city east of the Jordan and north of the Dead Sea, first associated with Sihon king of the Amorites and later with Israelite and Moabite control. It is important because it stands in the story of Israel's advance east of the Jordan and remains a remembered city in prophetic and poetic language. First appears in Num 21:25.1
AI summary: Heshbon enters the biblical story as the royal city of Sihon, making it central to Israel's victories east of the Jordan before the crossing into Canaan. Once taken, it becomes part of Israel's tribal and Levitical landscape, but later references show that control over Heshbon could shift and remain contested. Because it sits in the region between Israelite and Moabite interests, prophetic texts treat it as a meaningful point in pronouncements about judgment and loss. Across the cross references, Heshbon functions as an important eastern city whose changing fortunes reflect the contested history of the transjordan.1
Intelligence, a city ruled over by Sihon, king of the Amorites (Josh. 3:10; 13:17). It was taken by Moses (Num. 21:23-26), and became afterwards a Levitical city (Josh. 21:39) in the tribe of Reuben (Num. 32:37). After the Exile it was taken possession of by the Moabites (Isa. 15:4; Jer. 48:2, 34, 45). The ruins of this town are still seen about 20 miles east of Jordan from the north end of the Dead Sea. There are reservoirs in this district, which are probably the “fishpools” referred to in Cant. 7:4. 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.