Places of the Bible
Heshbon
City
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Heshbon, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.
- War with Canaanites · 1450 BC · 3 verses
- Dividing the land · 1444 BC · 5 verses
- Deliverance by Jephthah · 1151 BC · 2 verses
- Prophecies of Isaiah · 758 BC · 3 verses
- Prophecies of Jeremiah · 627 BC · 4 verses
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
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.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 37 verses
- Numbers
- 21:25, 21:26, 21:27, 21:28, 21:30, 21:34, 32:3, 32:37
- Deuteronomy
- 1:4, 2:24, 2:26, 2:30, 3:2, 3:6, 4:46, 29:7
- Joshua
- 9:10, 12:2, 12:5, 13:10, 13:17, 13:21, 13:26, 13:27, 21:39
- Judges
- 11:19, 11:26
- 1 Chronicles
- 6:81
- Nehemiah
- 9:22
- Song of Solomon
- 7:4
- Isaiah
- 15:4, 16:8, 16:9
- Jeremiah
- 48:2, 48:34, 48:45, 49:3
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.