In proverbs The poets or other ingenious persons of the Amorites or Canaanites, who made this following song over the vanquished Moabites, which is here brought in as a proof that this was now Sihon's land, and as an evidence of the just judgment of God in spoiling the spoilers, and subduing those who insulted over their conquered enemies. Come into Heshbon These are the words either of Sihon speaking to his people, or of the people exhorting one another to come and possess the city which they had taken. Of Sihon That which once was the royal city of the king of Moab, but now is the city of Sihon.
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Numbers 21:27
27 Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared: