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Numbers 21:28

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21:28For fire went out from Heshbon,

a flame from the city of Sihon.

It has consumed Ar of Moab

and the lords44 of the high places of Arnon.

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  1. 44 Some scholars emend to בָּלְעָה (bal’ah), reading “and devoured,” instead of בַּעֲלֵי (ba’aley, “its lords”); cf. , , . This emendation is closer to the Greek and makes a better parallelism, but the makes good sense as it stands.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

For fire came out from Heshbon,

flame from the city of Sihon.

It devoured Ar of Moab,

and swallowed the heights of the Arnon.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“Fire went out from Heshbon,

a blaze from the city of Sihon.

It consumed Ar of Moab,

the citizens of Arnon’s heights.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For fire came out of Heshbon,

a flame from the city of Sihon.

It consumed Ar of Moab,

the citizens of Arnon’s heights.

NLTNew Living Translation

A fire flamed forth from Heshbon,

a blaze from the city of Sihon.

It burned the city of Ar in Moab;

it destroyed the rulers of the Arnon heights.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Because fire went out from Heshbon,

a flame from the city of Sihon;

it consumed Ar of Moab,

the lords of the high places of Arnon.

KJV 1900King James Version

For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon,

A flame from the city of Sihon:

It hath consumed Ar of Moab,

And the lords of the high places of Arnon.