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Numbers 21:27

Therefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and established:
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
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, 2 Kings x. i., 4 Kings iii. 16., and Amos i. 13. (Haydock)

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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