Deuteronomy 2:26–33

²⁶“^aSo I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

²⁷‘Let me pass through your land, I will ¹go only on the highway; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left.

²⁸‘You will sell me food for money so that I may eat, and give me water for money so that I may drink; ^aonly let me pass through on ¹foot,

²⁹just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in ^aAr did for me, until I cross over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God is giving to us.’

³⁰“But ^aSihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass ¹through his land, for ^bYahweh your God stiffened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to give him over into your hand, as he is today.

³¹“And Yahweh said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land ¹over to you. Begin to possess, so that you may fully possess his land.’

³²“Then Sihon ¹with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz.

³³“^aBut Yahweh our God gave him ¹over to us, and we ^bstruck him down with his sons and all his people.