Deuteronomy 2:26

And I sent messengers, etc.] E, Numbers 21:21, Israel sent messengers, etc.

the wilderness of Kedemoth So only here. A Levite city Ḳedemoth, belonging to R e "uben, is given along with Yahaṣ and Mepha-ath, P, Joshua 13:18; Joshua 21:37; 1 Chronicles 6:79 [64]. The name is a plur. = East parts; it must have lain N. of Arnon on the edge of the desert. Musil (Moab, 110, 122) compares the ruins el-Meshreik, -The Orient," 7½ miles N. of W. Sa-ideh (Deuteronomy 2:24) and looking towards the desert.

Sihon king of Heshbon E, Numbers 21:21: king of the Amorites; cp. Deuteronomy 2:26. Sîḥôn is transliterated Sîḥûn in the Ar. Pent. (ed. Lagarde) but the proper Ar. analogue is Shîḥan, a man's name, also that of the saint venerated by the -Ajêlât tribe as the builder of the Ḳ ări-at Shîhan, extensive ruins on the conspicuous Jebel Shî ḥân, S. of W. el-Môjeb. See the present writer in PEFQ, 1904, 371 f.; Musil, Moab. 376, 382 with citations from Abu-l-fida and Yaḳût, Ethnol. Bericht(Ar. Petr.iii.) 110, 218.

Heshbon was his city. The mod. Ḥesbân, with ruins of the Byzantine age and a Greek inscription, near the W. edge of the Moab plateau, at the head of a glen descending to the W. Ḥesbân, and 600 ft below the town, the copious -Ain Ḥesban. A little S. of the latitude of Jericho, Ḥeshbôn lay on the main road, almost half-way between Arnon and Jabboḳ, a suitable site for the Amorite capital. See PEF Mem. E. Palestine, 104 ff.