Deuteronomy 2:26–3:11

²⁶“So I sent messengers from the wilderness^r 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. ²⁸Food 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. ²⁹Just as the descendants^u 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.’ ³⁰But 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. ³³And so Yahweh our God gave him over to us,^a and we struck him down, and his sons^b and all of his people. ³⁴So 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. ³⁵We took only the livestock as spoil for ourselves,^c and also the booty of the cities that we had captured. ³⁶From Aroer, which is on the edge of the wadi^d of Arnon and the city that was in the wadi^e 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 Riverⁱ and the towns of the hill country, according to all that Yahweh our God had instructed.

3“Then we turned, and we went up the road to Bashan, and Og the king of Bashan came out to meet us, he and all of his army for the battle at Edrei. ²And Yahweh said to me, ‘You should not fear him, for I have given him and all of his army^a and his land into your hand. And so you will do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites,^b who was reigning in Heshbon.’ ³And so Yahweh our God also gave Og the king of Bashan, and all of his army^c into our hand, and we struck him down until not a survivor remained to^d him. ⁴And we captured all of his towns^e at that time; there was not a city that we did not take from them. ⁵All of these were fortified towns with high walls, gates, and bars,^f apart from^g very many of the villages of the open country. ⁶And so we destroyed them just as we had done to Sihon the king of Heshbon; we destroyed utterly each town of males, the women, and the little children. ⁷But all of the livestock and the booty of the towns we kept as spoil for ourselves.^h

⁸“And so we took at that time the land from the control ofⁱ the two kings of the Amorites^j who were on the other side of the Jordan,^k from the wadi^l of Arnon up to Mount Hermon.^{m 9}(The Sidonians called Hermon ‘Sirion,’ and the Amorites called it ‘Senir.’) ¹⁰All of the towns of the plateau and the whole of Gilead and all of Bashan up to Salecah and Edrei, the towns of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ¹¹(For only Og, king of Bashan, was left from the remnant of the Rephaim. Indeed, his bedstead—it was a bedstead of iron. It is in Rabbah of the Ammonites.ⁿ Nine cubits is its length, and four cubits is its width according to the cubit of a man.)