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Sibmah

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Numbers 32:38: one of the cities the children of Reuben build.

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ISA 16:6–12, engwebp
⁶We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing.
⁷Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken.
⁸For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.
⁹Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.
¹⁰Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.
¹¹Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.
¹²It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail.
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JER 48:31–36, engwebp
³¹Therefore I will wail for Moab. Yes, I will cry out for all Moab. They will mourn for the men of Kir Heres.
³²With more than the weeping of Jazer I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah. Your branches passed over the sea. They reached even to the sea of Jazer. The destroyer has fallen on your summer fruits and on your vintage.
³³Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses. No one will tread with shouting. The shouting will be no shouting.
³⁴From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for the waters of Nimrim will also become desolate.
³⁵Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab,” says the LORD, “him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his gods.
³⁶Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like flutes, and my heart sounds like flutes for the men of Kir Heres. Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has perished.
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JOS 13:15–23, engwebp
¹⁵Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.
¹⁶Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;
¹⁷Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,
¹⁸Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
¹⁹Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar in the mount of the valley,
²⁰Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth,
²¹all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.
²²The children of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.
²³The border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and its villages.
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NUM 32:33–38, engwebp
³³Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan; the land, according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.
³⁴The children of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
³⁵Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,
³⁶Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities and folds for sheep.
³⁷The children of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
³⁸Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah. They gave other names to the cities which they built.
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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Sibmah” by name and 5 shared verses. The coordinate of its leading identification, Qarn al Qubish (confidence 479 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event. 1 other identification is listed too.

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Qarn al Qubish
OpenBible.info confidence 479 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.78237, 35.76131
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Sibmah” (CC BY 4.0)
Khirbet Ayun Musa
OpenBible.info confidence 114 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.77702, 35.7385
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Sibmah” (CC BY 4.0)

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Numbers 32:38 Open that verse

Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah. They gave other names to the cities which they built.

Joshua 13:19 Open that verse

Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar in the mount of the valley,

Isaiah 16:8 Open that verse

For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.

Isaiah 16:9 Open that verse

Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.

Jeremiah 48:32 Open that verse

With more than the weeping of Jazer I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah. Your branches passed over the sea. They reached even to the sea of Jazer. The destroyer has fallen on your summer fruits and on your vintage.

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Entry: Sibmah (place-sibmah)
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Current wording: Numbers 32:38: one of the cities the children of Reuben build.
Cited evidence: ISA 16:6–12, engwebp / JER 48:31–36, engwebp / JOS 13:15–23, engwebp / NUM 32:33–38, engwebp
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