^2 (A)Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and ^(B)from the middle of the valley as far as the ^(C)river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is, half of Gilead,

Jacob Wrestles with God

²² The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children,^[a] and crossed the ford of the ^(A)Jabbok.

²² “And you gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner. ^(A)So they took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon ^(B)and the land of Og king of Bashan.

²² And they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.

¹³ And the king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, ^(A)“Because Israel on coming up from Egypt took away my land, from the ^(B)Arnon to the ^(C)Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore restore it peaceably.”

⁶ And ^(A)we devoted them to destruction,^[a] as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every ^(B)city, men, women, and children. ⁷ But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as our plunder. ⁸ So we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon ⁹ (the Sidonians call ^(C)Hermon ^(D)Sirion, while the Amorites call it ^(E)Senir), ¹⁰ all the cities of the ^(F)tableland and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as ^(G)Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ¹¹ (For ^(H)only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of ^(I)the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in ^(J)Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits^[b] was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the ^(K)common cubit.^[c])

¹² “When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning ^(L)at Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with ^(M)its cities. ^13 (N)The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, that is, ^(O)all the region of Argob, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (All that portion of Bashan is called the land of ^(P)Rephaim. ^14 (Q)Jair the Manassite took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of ^(R)the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called the villages ^(S)after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.) ¹⁵ To Machir ^(T)I gave Gilead, ¹⁶ and to the Reubenites ^(U)and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the Valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a border, as far over as the river Jabbok, ^(V)the border of the Ammonites; ¹⁷ the Arabah also, with the Jordan as the border, from ^(W)Chinnereth as far as ^(X)the Sea of the Arabah, ^(Y)the Salt Sea, under ^(Z)the slopes of Pisgah on the east.

²⁴ ‘Rise up, set out on your journey and ^(A)go over the Valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of ^(B)Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession, and ^(C)contend with him in battle. ²⁵ This day I will begin to put ^(D)the dread and fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.’

The Defeat of King Sihon

²⁶ “So I sent messengers from the wilderness of ^(E)Kedemoth to Sihon the king of ^(F)Heshbon, ^(G)with words of peace, saying, ^27 (H)‘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 (I)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 (J)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 ^(K)Sihon the king of ^(L)Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the Lord your God ^(M)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 ^(N)Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. ³³ And ^(O)the Lord our God gave him over to us, and ^(P)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 ^(Q)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 (R)From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from ^(S)the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. ^(T)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 ^(U)Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, whatever the Lord our God had forbidden us.