²⁴ ‘Arise, set out, and pass through the ^[a](A)valley of Arnon. Look! I have given Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land into your hand; begin to take possession and contend with him in battle. ²⁵ This day I will begin to put ^(B)the dread and fear of you ^[b]upon the peoples ^[c]everywhere under the heavens, who, when they hear the report 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 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, ^(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 which the Lord our God is giving to 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 deliver him into your hand, as he is today. ³¹ The Lord said to me, ‘See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land ^[g]over to you. Begin to ^[h]occupy, that you may possess his land.’

³² “Then Sihon ^[i]with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz. ^33 (I)The Lord our God delivered him ^[j]over to us, and we ^[k](J)defeated him with his sons and all his people. ³⁴ So we captured all his cities at that time and ^[l](K)utterly destroyed ^[m]the men, women and children of every city. We left no survivor. ³⁵ We took ^(L)only the animals as our booty and the spoil of the cities which we had captured. ³⁶ From ^(M)Aroer which is on the edge of the ^[n]valley of Arnon and from the city which is in the ^[o]valley, even to Gilead, there was no city that was too high for us; the Lord our God delivered all ^[p]over to us.

Conquests Recounted

3 “^(A)Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og, king of Bashan, ^[a]with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Edrei. ² But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand; and you shall do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.’ ³ So the Lord our God delivered Og also, king of Bashan, with all his people into our hand, and we smote ^[b]them until no survivor was ^[c]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 ^(B)Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ⁵ All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates and bars, besides a great many ^[d]unwalled towns. ⁶ We ^[e]utterly destroyed them, as we did to ^(C)Sihon king of Heshbon, ^[f](D)utterly destroying ^[g]the men, women and children of every city. ^7 (E)But all the animals and the spoil of the cities we took as our booty.

⁸ “^(F)Thus we took the land at that time from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the ^[h]valley of Arnon to Mount Hermon ⁹ (Sidonians ^(G)call Hermon ^(H)Sirion, and the Amorites call it ^(I)Senir): ¹⁰ all the cities of the plateau and all Gilead and ^(J)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 ^(K)Rephaim. Behold, his ^[i]bedstead was an iron ^[j]bedstead; it is in ^(L)Rabbah of the sons of Ammon. Its length was nine cubits and its width four cubits ^[k]by ordinary cubit.)