Deuteronomy 2:26-37

Lexham English Bible

²⁶ “So I sent messengers from the wilderness^[a] of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon; I sent terms of peace, saying,^{[b] 27} ‘Let me cross through your land and only along the road^[c] I will go; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left. ²⁸ Food for money you shall sell me, so that I may eat, and water for money you will give to me, so that I may drink; just let me cross on foot. ²⁹ Just as the descendants^[d] of Esau did for me, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, until I cross the Jordan into the land that Yahweh our God is giving to us.’ ³⁰ But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing to let us cross through his territory because Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made him obstinate^[e] in order to give him^[f] into your hand, just as he has now done.^{[g] 31} Yahweh said to me, ‘Look! I have begun to give over to you^[h] Sihon and his land; begin to take possession of his land.’^{[i] 32} Then Sihon and all his people came out to meet us for battle at Jahaz. ³³ And so Yahweh our God gave him over to us,^[j] and we struck him down, and his sons^[k] and all of his people. ³⁴ So we captured all of his cities at that time, and we destroyed each town of males and the women and the children; we did not leave behind a survivor. ³⁵ We took only the livestock as spoil for ourselves,^[l] and also the booty of the cities that we had captured. ³⁶ From Aroer, which is on the edge of the wadi^[m] of Arnon and the city that was in the wadi^[n] on up to Gilead, there was not a city that was inaccessible to us; Yahweh our God gave everything^[o] to us.^{[p] 37} Only the land of the Ammonites^[q] you did not approach, all along the whole upper region of the Jabbok River^[r] and the towns of the hill country, according to all that Yahweh our God had instructed.