“For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.”
'For fire went out from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon; it consumed Ar of Moab, and swallowed up the heights of the Arnon' — the poem describes warfare through fire imagery: Heshbon's flames consumed Moabite territory. Ar (a Moabite city) and the heights of the Arnon become consumed, reflecting Sihon's earlier conquest of Moab. The fire is both literal warfare and divine judgment.
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