Deuteronomy 2:26–37

The Defeat of King Sihon

²⁶“So I sent messengers from the wilderness of ^pKedemoth to Sihon the king of ^mHeshbon, ^qwith words of peace, saying, ^27r‘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. ^28sYou 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, ^29tas 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.’ ³⁰But ^uSihon the king of ^mHeshbon would not let us pass by him, for the Lord your God ^vhardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as he is this day. ³¹And 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.’ ³²Then ^wSihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. ³³And ^xthe Lord our God gave him over to us, and ^ywe defeated him and his sons and all his people. ³⁴And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction² every ^zcity, men, women, and children. We left no survivors. ³⁵Only the livestock we took as spoil for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities that we captured. ^36aFrom Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from ^bthe city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. ^cThe Lord our God gave all into our hands. ³⁷Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river ^dJabbok and the cities of the hill country, whatever the Lord our God had forbidden us.