Sihon and Og Struck Down

^21 (A)Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying, ²² “^(B)Let me pass through your land. We will not turn off into field or vineyard; we will not drink water from wells. We will go by the king’s highway until we have passed through your border.” ^23 (C)But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border. So Sihon gathered all his people and went out to meet Israel in the wilderness and came to ^(D)Jahaz and fought against Israel. ²⁴ Then ^(E)Israel ^[a]struck him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the sons of Ammon; for the ^(F)border of the sons of Ammon was ^[b]Jazer. ²⁵ And Israel took all these cities, and ^(G)Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all her ^[c]towns. ²⁶ For Heshbon was the city of Sihon, king of the Amorites. Now it was he who had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon.

²⁶ “^(A)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 ^[a]go 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; ^(B)only let me pass through on ^[b]foot, ²⁹ just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in ^(C)Ar did for me, until I cross over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God is giving to us.’ ³⁰ But ^(D)Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass ^[c]through his land, for ^(E)Yahweh your God stiffened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to give him over into your hand, as he is today. ³¹ And Yahweh said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land ^[d]over to you. Begin to possess, so that you may fully possess his land.’

³² “Then Sihon ^[e]with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz. ^33 (F)But Yahweh our God gave him ^[f]over to us, and we ^(G)struck him down with his sons and all his people. ³⁴ So we captured all his cities at that time and ^[g](H)devoted to destruction ^[h]the men, women, and little ones of every city. We left no survivor remaining. ³⁵ We took ^(I)only the animals as our plunder and the spoil of the cities which we had captured.

¹⁰ and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the sons of Ammon;