26 “So I sent messengers from the wildernessr of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon; I sent terms of peace, ⌊saying⌋,s 27 ‘Let me cross through your land and ⌊only along the road⌋t I will go; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left. 28 Food for money you shall sell me, so that I may eat, and water for money you will give to me, so that I may drink; just let me cross on foot. 29 Just as the descendantsu of Esau did for me, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, until I cross the Jordan into the land that Yahweh our God is giving to us.’ 30 But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing to let us cross through his territory because Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and ⌊made him obstinate⌋v ⌊in order to give him⌋w into your hand, ⌊just as he has now done⌋.x 31 Yahweh said to me, ‘Look! I have begun to give ⌊over to you⌋y Sihon and his land; begin ⌊to take possession of his land⌋.’z 32 Then Sihon and all his people came out to meet us for battle at Jahaz. 33 And so Yahweh our God gave him over ⌊to us⌋,a and we struck him down, and his sonsb and all of his people. 34 So we captured all of his cities at that time, and we destroyed each town of males and the women and the children; we did not leave behind a survivor. 35 We took only the livestock as spoil for ourselves,c and also the booty of the cities that we had captured. 36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the wadid of Arnon and the city that was in the wadie on up to Gilead, there was not a city that was inaccessible to us; Yahweh our God gave ⌊everything⌋f ⌊to us⌋.g 37 Only the land of ⌊the Ammonites⌋h you did not approach, all along the whole upper region of the Jabbok ⌊River⌋i and the towns of the hill country, according to all that Yahweh our God had instructed.