Deuteronomy 2:26-37
Read Deuteronomy 2 in full →26“aSo I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, 27‘Let me pass through your land, I will 1go only on the highway; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left. 28‘You will sell me food for money so that I may eat, and give me water for money so that I may drink; aonly let me pass through on 1foot, 29just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in aAr did for me, until I cross over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God is giving to us.’ 30“But aSihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass 1through his land, for bYahweh your God stiffened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to give him over into your hand, as he is today. 31“And Yahweh said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land 1over to you. Begin to possess, so that you may fully possess his land.’
32“Then Sihon 1with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz. 33“aBut Yahweh our God gave him 1over to us, and we bstruck him down with his sons and all his people. 34“So we captured all his cities at that time and 1,adevoted to destruction 2the men, women, and little ones of every city. We left no survivor remaining. 35“We took aonly the animals as our plunder and the spoil of the cities which we had captured. 36“From aAroer which is on the edge of the 1valley of Arnon and from the city which is in the 2valley, even to Gilead, there was not a town that was too high for us; Yahweh our God gave all 3over to us. 37“aOnly you did not go near to the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the 1river bJabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God had commanded us.