Heshbon

Heshbon

Heshbon A city in the north of Moab which changed hands several times; captured by the Israelites, it was occupied by the tribe Reuben (Num. 32: 37) but later by Levites (Josh. 21: 1–3, 39). It returned to the Moabites in the 9th cent. BCE (Isa. 15: 4); known as Esbus in the NT era.

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Heshbon , ancient city, E of the Jordan. It was an Amorite capital, located at the crossroads of the east-west road to Jericho and the north-south road paralleling the Jordan. In the Bible it was first allotted to Reuben, later to Gad.

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