“So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

“When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall offer it terms of peace.

And if it agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall become your forced labor and serve you.

However, if it does not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it.

You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days.

and you shall sacrifice peace offerings and eat there, and rejoice before the Lord your God.

Among those nations you will find no peace, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.