시혼 은
Amorites 의 왕이다. 원래 모압족속이 살던 지역을 빼앗아 다스렸는데, 그 사실이 그당시 워낙 유명하여 다른 시인이 그 사실을 노래하는 내용이 성경에 기록되어있다.
26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon .
27 Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, “Come to Heshbon . Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
28 for a fire has gone out of Heshbon , a flame from the city of Sihon . It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon .
29 Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, people of Chemosh ! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites.
30 We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba .”
Moses 가 출애굽 과정에서 이 시혼에게 사자를 보내 그들의 땅을 지나도록 허락을 구하였으나, 허락하지 않고 오히려 이들을 공격하였다.
이들과 이스라엘 민족간의 전쟁에서 크게 패하여 쫓겨났고, 그 땅에 이스라엘 백성들이 임시적으로 머물게 되었다.
21 22 “Let me pass through your land. We will not turn away into field or vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border.”
23 Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz . He fought against Israel.
24 Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok , even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was fortified.
25 Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon , and in all its villages.