²⁶ “And I sent messengers out of the Wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

²⁷ ‘Let me pass through thy land. I will go along by the high way; I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.

²⁸ Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink. I will pass through only on my feet,

²⁹ as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar did unto me, until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which the Lord our God giveth us.’

³⁰ But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the Lord thy God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.

³¹ And the Lord said unto me, ‘Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.’

³² Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.

³³ And the Lord our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons and all his people.

³⁴ And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men and the women and the little ones of every city; we left none to remain.

³⁵ Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.

³⁶ From Aroer, which is by the brink of the River of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us; the Lord our God delivered all unto us.

³⁷ Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the River Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the Lord our God forbade us.