| Numbers 21:27
| Therefore it is said in the proverb: Come into Hesebon, let the city of Sehon be built, and set up:
| Proverb. Hebrew Moshelim: "Those who speak proverbs, or enigmas, say." Those were the ancient poets of the Amorrhites, who composed this canticle on the victory of Sehon. (Calmet) --- Moses inserts it in his work, as an additional proof, that the country was entirely lost to Moab, and as a denunciation of the evils which still hung over the head of that people, and would be inflicted upon them by David, etc., (2 Kings 10:1.; 4 Kings 3:16.; Amos 1:13.) (Haydock)
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