Deuteronomy 2:26–37

²⁶So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Cademoth to Sehon the king of Hesebon with peaceable words, saying:

²⁷We will pass through thy land, we will go along by the highway: we will not turn aside neither to the right hand nor to the left.

²⁸Sell us meat for money, that we may eat: give us water for money and so we will drink. We only ask that thou wilt let us pass through,

²⁹As the children of Esau have done, that dwell in Seir, and the Moabites, that abide in Ar: until we come to the Jordan, and pass to the land which the Lord our God will give us.

³⁰And Sehon the king of Hesebon would not let us pass: because the Lord thy God had hardened his spirit, and fixed his heart, that he might be delivered into thy hands, as now thou seest.

³¹And the Lord said to me: Behold I have begun to deliver unto thee Sehon and his land, begin to possess it.

³²And Sehon came out to meet us with all his people to fight at Jasa.

³³And the Lord our God delivered him to us: and we slew him with his sons and all his people.

³⁴And we took all his cities at that time, killing the inhabitants of them, men and women and children. We left nothing of them:

³⁵Except the cattle which came to the share of them that took them: and the spoils of the cities, which we took:

³⁶From Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, a town that is situate in a valley, as far as Galaad. There was not a village or city, that escaped our hands: the Lord our God delivered all unto us:

³⁷Except the land of the children of Ammon, to which we approached not: and all that border upon the torrent Jeboc, and the cities in the mountains, and all the places which the Lord our God forbade us.