Deuteronomy 2:24-3:11

New American Standard Bible

²⁴ ‘Arise, set out, and pass through the ^[a](A)Valley of Arnon. Look! I have handed over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; start taking possession and plunge into battle with him. ²⁵ This day I will begin to put ^(B)the dread and fear of you upon the faces of ^[b]people everywhere, ^[c]who, when they hear the news of you, ^(C)will tremble and be in anguish because of you.’

²⁶ “^(D)So 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 ^[d]travel only on the road. 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, ^(E)only let me pass through on ^[e]foot, ²⁹ just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in ^(F)Ar did for me, until I cross over the Jordan into the land that the Lord our God is giving us.’ ³⁰ But ^(G)Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass ^[f]through his land; for the ^(H)Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to hand him over to you, as he is today. ³¹ And the Lord said to me, ‘See, I have begun to turn Sihon and his land over ^[g]to you. Begin taking possession, so that you may possess his land.’

³² “Then Sihon came out ^[h]with all his people to meet us in battle at Jahaz. ³³ And ^(I)the Lord our God turned him over ^[i]to us, and we ^[j](J)defeated him with his sons and all his people. ³⁴ So we captured all his cities at that time and ^[k](K)utterly destroyed ^[l]the men, women, and children of every city. We left no survivor. ³⁵ We took ^(L)only the animals as our plunder, and the spoils of the cities which we had captured. ³⁶ From ^(M)Aroer which is on the edge of the ^[m]Valley of Arnon and from the city which is in the ^[n]valley, even to Gilead, there was no city that was too ^[o]high for us; the Lord our God turned it all over ^[p]to us. ^37 (N)Only you did not go near the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the ^[q]river ^(O)Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the Lord our God had commanded us to avoid.

Conquests Recounted

3 “^(P)Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og, king of Bashan, came out ^[r]with all his people to meet us in battle at Edrei. ² But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have handed him and all his people and his land over to you; and you shall do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.’ ³ So the Lord our God also handed over to us Og, king of Bashan, with all his people, and we struck ^[s]them until no survivor was ^[t]left. ⁴ We captured all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of ^(Q)Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ⁵ All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many ^[u]unwalled towns. ⁶ We ^[v]utterly destroyed them, as we did to ^(R)Sihon king of Heshbon, ^[w](S)utterly destroying ^[x]the men, women, and children of every city. ^7 (T)But all the animals and the spoils of the cities we took as our plunder.

⁸ “^(U)So at that time we took the land from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the ^[y]Valley of Arnon to Mount Hermon ⁹ (Sidonians ^(V)call Hermon ^(W)Sirion, and the Amorites call it ^(X)Senir): ¹⁰ all the cities of the plateau, all Gilead, and ^(Y)all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ¹¹ (For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the ^(Z)Rephaim. Behold, his ^[z]bed was a ^[aa]bed of iron; it is in ^(AA)Rabbah of the sons of Ammon. Its length was nine cubits, and its width four cubits by ^[ab]the usual cubit.)