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31 The Lord said to me, “Look! I have already begun to give over Sihon and his land to you. Start right now to take his land as your possession.” 32 When Sihon and all his troops[a] emerged to encounter us in battle at Jahaz,[b] 33 the Lord our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, along with his sons[c] and everyone else.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 2:32 tn Heb “people.”
  2. Deuteronomy 2:32 sn Jahaz. This is probably Khirbet el-Medeiyineh. See J. Dearman, “The Levitical Cities of Reuben and Moabite Toponymy,” BASOR 276 (1984): 55-57.
  3. Deuteronomy 2:33 tc The translation follows the Qere or marginal reading; the Kethib (consonantal text) has the singular, “his son.”
  4. Deuteronomy 2:33 tn Heb “all his people.”