Numbers 21:26
Hesebon was the city of Sehon the king of the Amorrhites, who fought against the king of Moab: and took all the land, that had been of his dominions, as far as the Arnon.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Urbs Hesebon fuit Sehon regis Amorrhæi, qui pugnavit contra regem Moab : et tulit omnem terram, quæ ditionis illius fuerat usque Arnon.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔστιν γὰρ Ἑσεβών, πόλις Σηὼν τοῦ βασιλέως τῶν Ἀμορραίων ἐστιν· καὶ οὗτος ἐπολέμησεν βασιλέα Μωὰβ τὸ πρότερον, καὶ ἔλαβον πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ Ἀροὴρ ἕως Ἀρνών.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּ֣י חֶשְׁבּ֔וֹן עִ֗יר סִיחֹ֛ן מֶ֥לֶךְ הָאֱמֹרִ֖י הִ֑וא וְה֣וּא נִלְחַ֗ם בְּמֶ֤לֶךְ מוֹאָב֙ הָֽרִאשׁ֔וֹן וַיִּקַּ֧ח אֶת כָּל אַרְצ֛וֹ מִיָּד֖וֹ עַד אַרְנֹֽן
Haydock's commentary
Arnon. Hence this territory, which formerly belonged to Moab, being taken in a just war, the Moabites could not lawfully retain it, as they attempted to do under Jephte, Judges xi. 13. (Grotius, Jur. iii. 6.)
Hesebon, or Esbus, was the capital, and lay over-against Jericho, twenty miles from the Jordan.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.