Dict: smith - HESHBON

smith:

HESHBON - H>@ - (stronghold), the capital city of Sihon king of the Amorites. kjv@Numbers:21:26) It stood on the western border of the high plain
Mishor, kjv@Joshua:13:17)
and on the boundary line between the tribes of Reuben and Gad. The ruins of Hesban , 20 miles east of the Jordan, on the parallel of the northern end of the Dead Sea mark the site, as they bear the name; of the ancient Heshbon. There are many cisterns among the ruins. Comp. (Solomon kjv@7:4)