²¹Israel sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amorites,^o saying, ²²“Let us go through your land; we will not turn aside into a field or vineyard; we will not drink well water along the way of the king until we have gone through your territory.” ²³But Sihon did not allow Israel to go through his territory. Sihon gathered all his people and went out to meet Israel; he came to the desert, to Jahaz, and he fought against Israel. ²⁴But Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and they took possession of his land from Arnon to Jabbok, until the Ammonites,^p because the boundary of the Ammonites^q was strong. ²⁵Israel took all these cities, and Israel inhabited all the cities of the Amorites,^r in Heshbon, and in all its environs.^s ²⁶Because Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites,^t who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land from his hand until Arnon. ²⁷Thus the ones who quote proverbs say,

“Come to Heshbon! Let it be built!

And let the city of Sihon be established.

²⁸Because fire went out from Heshbon,

a flame from the city of Sihon;

it consumed Ar of Moab,

the lords of the^u high places of Arnon.

²⁹Woe to you, Moab!

You have perished, people of Chemosh.

He has given his sons as fugitives,

and his daughters into captivity,

to the king of the Amorites,^v Sihon.

³⁰We destroyed them;

Heshbon has perished up to Dibon;

we laid waste up to Nophah,

which reaches^w Medeba.”

³¹Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.^x

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Footnotes

oHebrew “Amorite”
pLiterally “sons of Ammon”
qLiterally “sons of Ammon”
rHebrew “Amorite”
sHebrew “her daughters;” other modern versions translate “its villages”
tHebrew “Amorite”
uOr “the dominant”
vHebrew “Amorite”
wLiterally “is up to”
xHebrew “Amorite”