Numbers 21:27
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Therefore it is said in the proverb: Come into Hesebon, let the city of Sehon be built and set up:

Numbers 21:14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord: As he did in the Red Sea, so will he do in the streams of Arnon.

Isaiah 14:4 Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and shalt say: How is the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath ceased?

Habakkuk 2:6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a dark speech concerning him: and it shall be said: Woe to him that heapeth together that which is not his own? how long also doth he load himself with thick clay?

Context
The Defeat of Sihon
26Hesebon 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 dominion, as far as the Arnon. 27Therefore it is said in the proverb: Come into Hesebon, let the city of Sehon be built and set up:28A fire is gone out of Hesebon, a flame from the city of Sehon, and hath consumed Ar of the Moabites, and the inhabitants of the high places of the Arnon.…
Cross References
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 dominion, as far as the Arnon.

Numbers 21:28
A fire is gone out of Hesebon, a flame from the city of Sehon, and hath consumed Ar of the Moabites, and the inhabitants of the high places of the Arnon.

Nehemiah 7:1
Now after the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and numbered the porters and singing men, and Levites:

Lexicon
That is why
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the poets
הַמֹּשְׁלִ֖ים (ham·mō·šə·lîm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4911: To liken, to use, language, in, to resemble

say:
יֹאמְר֥וּ (yō·mə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

“Come
בֹּ֣אוּ (bō·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 935: To come in, come, go in, go

to Heshbon,
חֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן (ḥeš·bō·wn)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2809: Heshbon -- a place East of the Jordan

let it be rebuilt;
תִּבָּנֶ֥ה (tib·bā·neh)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1129: To build

let the city
עִ֥יר (‘îr)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 5892: Excitement

of Sihon
סִיחֽוֹן׃ (sî·ḥō·wn)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5511: Sihon -- a king of the Amorites

be restored.
וְתִכּוֹנֵ֖ן (wə·ṯik·kō·w·nên)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Conjunctive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3559: To be erect


Additional Translations
That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored.Why they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:

Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come ye to Heshbon; Let the city of Sihon be built and established:

Therefore say they who deal in dark speeches, Come to Esebon, that the city of Seon may be built and prepared.

Therefore the poets say, Come to Heshbon; let the city of Sihon be built and established.

Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come ye to Heshbon, Let the city of Sihon be built and established:

Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared.

Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, "Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;

therefore those using similes say -- 'Enter ye Heshbon, Let the city of Sihon be built and ready,
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