²⁶ “^(A)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 ^[a]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, ^(B)only let me pass through on ^[b]foot, ²⁹ just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in ^(C)Ar did for me, until I cross over the Jordan into the land that the Lord our God is giving us.’ ³⁰ But ^(D)Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass ^[c]through his land; for the ^(E)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 ^[d]to you. Begin taking possession, so that you may possess his land.’

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

¹⁹ And Israel sent ^(A)messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, “Please let us pass through your land to our place.”