Deuteronomy 2:26-37

English Standard Version

The Defeat of King Sihon

²⁶ “So I sent messengers from the wilderness of ^(A)Kedemoth to Sihon the king of ^(B)Heshbon, ^(C)with words of peace, saying, ^27 (D)‘Let me pass through your land. I will go only by the road; I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left. ^28 (E)You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink. Only let me pass through on foot, ^29 (F)as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I go over the Jordan into the land that the Lord our God is giving to us.’ ³⁰ But ^(G)Sihon the king of ^(H)Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the Lord your God ^(I)hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as he is this day. ³¹ And the Lord said to me, ‘Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to take possession, that you may occupy his land.’ ³² Then ^(J)Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. ³³ And ^(K)the Lord our God gave him over to us, and ^(L)we defeated him and his sons and all his people. ³⁴ And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction^[a] every ^(M)city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors. ³⁵ Only the livestock we took as spoil for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities that we captured. ^36 (N)From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from ^(O)the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. ^(P)The Lord our God gave all into our hands. ³⁷ Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river ^(Q)Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, whatever the Lord our God had forbidden us.