Heshbon is a land in the region of Israel. ## The capital of the Amorites It was the capital of the Amorites. When Moses was leading the Exodus, he requested to enter the Moab plains and pass through their land. However, Sihon, the king of the Amorites at that time, did not allow it and attacked the Israelites. Moses and the Israelites won that war and occupied the land from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River.
Numbers 21:21“Let me pass through your land. We will not turn away into field or vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border.”Numbers 21:22Sihon would not allow Israel)) to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz. He fought against Israel.Numbers 21:23Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was fortified.Numbers 21:24Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.Numbers 21:25For 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 his hand, even to the Arnon.Numbers 21:26Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, “Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
가나안 정복이후 르우벤 지파에게 할당되었다가 나중에 갓 지파의 성읍이 되었다.
Numbers 32:37Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah. They gave other names to the cities which they built.
1 Chronicles 6:80Heshbon with its pasture lands, and Jazer with its pasture lands.1 Chronicles 6:81Heshbon with its pasture lands, and Jazer with its pasture lands.