Numbers 21:23–30

^23aBut Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border. So Sihon gathered all his people and went out to meet Israel in the wilderness and came to ^bJahaz and fought against Israel.

²⁴Then ^aIsrael ¹struck him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the sons of Ammon; for the ^bborder of the sons of Ammon was ²Jazer.

²⁵And Israel took all these cities, and ^aIsrael lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all her ¹towns.

²⁶For Heshbon was the city of Sihon, king of the Amorites. Now it was he who had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon.

²⁷Therefore those who use proverbs say,

“Come to Heshbon! Let it be built!

So let the city of Sihon be established.

²⁸“^aFor a fire went forth from Heshbon,

A flame from the town of Sihon;

It devoured ^bAr of Moab,

The ^1cdominant ²heights of the Arnon.

²⁹“^aWoe to you, O Moab!

You perish, O people of ^bChemosh!

^cHe has given his sons as fugitives,

^dAnd his daughters into captivity,

To an Amorite king, Sihon.

³⁰“But we have cast them down,

Heshbon perishes as far as ^aDibon,

And we have made desolate even to Nophah,

Which reaches to Medeba.”