Deuteronomy 2:28-30

The Voice

²⁸ I ask only for these rights: sell me food and water for silver, so that I can eat and so that I can drink. Just let me walk across your land. ²⁹ The descendants of Esau who live in Seir let me pass through their territory this way, and so did the Moabites who live in Ar. I’ll keep going right to the Jordan River, where I’ll cross into the land the Eternal, our True God, is giving to us.” ³⁰ But Sihon, king of Heshbon, refused to let us go through his land marching so close to his capital. The Eternal your God made him stubborn and obstinate so that he would fight and be defeated by you, and that’s just what happened.