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45 In the shadow of Heshbon
    fugitives stop exhausted,
for a fire has gone out from Heshbon,
    a flame from the house of Sihon;
it has destroyed the forehead[a] of Moab,
    the scalp of the people of tumult.[b](A)

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  1. 48.45 Or borderland
  2. 48.45 Or of Shaon

17 I see him but not now;
    I behold him but not near—
a star shall come out of Jacob,
    and a scepter shall rise out of Israel;
it shall crush the foreheads[a] of Moab
    and the heads[b] of all the Shethites.(A)

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  1. 24.17 Or borderlands
  2. 24.17 Or territory

28 For fire came out from Heshbon,
    flame from the city of Sihon.
It devoured Ar of Moab
    and swallowed up[a] the heights of the Arnon.(A)

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  1. 21.28 Gk: Heb and the lords of

42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures:

‘The stone that the builders rejected
    has become the cornerstone;[a]
this was the Lord’s doing,
    and it is amazing in our eyes’?(A)

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  1. 21.42 Or keystone (in an arch)

Out of them shall come the cornerstone,
    out of them the tent peg,
out of them the battle bow,
    out of them every commander.(A)

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So I will send a fire on Moab,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth,
and Moab shall die amid uproar,
    amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;(A)

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26 For Heshbon was the city of King Sihon of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and captured all his land as far as the Arnon.

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King Sihon Defeated

21 Then Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, saying,(A)

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