Deuteronomy 2:26–37

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.