Heshbon

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Heshbon is an ancient city in the Transjordan region frequently mentioned in the Bible as a significant Moabite and later Israelite center.

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Heshbon canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient city
biblical city
appearsInBook Book of Deuteronomy
Book of Isaiah
Book of Jeremiah
Book of Joshua
Book of Numbers
Song of Songs
associatedWithPeople Israelites
Moabites
capitalOf Sihon king of the Amorites
conqueredBy Israelites
culturalContext Iron Age Levant
surface form: Levantine Iron Age polities
describedAs Israelite city
Moabite city
describedIn prophetic oracles against Moab
geographicalFeatureNearby Arnon Gorge (regionally associated)
geopoliticalFunction frontier town between Israelite and Moabite territories
hasUncertainArchaeologicalIdentification true
languageOfPrimarySources Hebrew
surface form: Biblical Hebrew
laterControl Ammon
Israel
Moab
locatedIn Transjordan
region east of the Jordan River
mentionedIn Tanakh
surface form: Hebrew Bible

Bible
surface form: Old Testament
modernSiteIdentification Tell Hesban (often identified, not certain)
notableKingAssociated Sihon king of the Amorites
surface form: Sihon
regionInModernTerms Transjordan
surface form: modern-day Jordan
religiousSignificance part of the land east of the Jordan promised to Israel
religiousTradition Christianity
Judaism
roleInText border city
military stronghold
royal city
scripturalStatus part of biblical historical geography
sourceType biblical narrative
biblical poetry
prophetic literature
strategicImportance control of routes in Transjordan
symbolismInBible image of beauty in Song of Songs
place of counsel and decision
timePeriod Bronze Age
Iron Age
tribalAllocation Tribe of Gad
surface form: tribe of Gad

tribe of Reuben

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.