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Numbers 21:25

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dwelt: Numbers 21:31, Numbers 32:33-42; Deuteronomy 2:12

in Heshbon: Heshbon was situated, according to Eusebius, twenty miles east of Jordan; and Jerome, who places it at the same distance, says it was, in his time, a very considerable city. It still subsists, in ruins, under the name of Heshban. Song of Solomon 7:4; Isaiah 15:4, Isaiah 16:8-9; Jeremiah 48:2, Jeremiah 48:34, Jeremiah 48:45

villages: Heb. daughters, Ezekiel 16:46, Ezekiel 16:49, Ezekiel 16:53

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