23 But 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. 24 But 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. 25 Israel took all these cities, and Israel inhabited all the cities of the Amorites,r in Heshbon, and in all its environs.s 26 Because 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.