24. 'Rise up and cross the torrent Arnon! Behold, I have delivered Sihon, the king of Heshbon, the Amorite, into your hand, and so, begin to possess his land and to engage in battle against him.
25. Today I will begin to send the terror and dread of you among the peoples who are living under all of heaven, so that, when they hear your name, they may be afraid, and may tremble in the manner of a woman giving birth, and may be gripped by anguish.'
26. Therefore, I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon, the king of Heshbon, with peaceful words, saying:
27. 'We will cross through your land. We will advance by the public way. We will not turn aside, neither to the right, nor to the left.
28. Sell us food for a price, so that we may eat. Provide us with water for money, and so we will drink. We only ask that you allow us to pass through,
29. just as the sons of Esau have done, who live at Seir, and the Moabites, who abide in Ar, until we arrive at the Jordan, and we cross to the land which the Lord our God will give to us.'
30. And Sihon, the king of Heshbon, was not willing to grant passage to us. For the Lord your God had hardened his spirit, and had fastened his heart, so that he would be delivered into your hands, just as you now see.
31. And the Lord said to me: 'Behold, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land to you. Begin to possess it.'
32. And Sihon went out to meet us with all his people, to battle at Jahaz.
33. And the Lord our God delivered him to us. And we struck him down, with his sons and all his people.
34. And we seized all his cities at that time, putting to death their inhabitants: men as well as women and children. We left nothing of them,
35. except the cattle, which went to the share of those who plundered them. And we seized the spoils of the cities,
36. from Aroer, which is above the bank of the torrent Arnon, a town which is situated in a valley, all the way to Gilead. There was not a village or city which escaped from our hands. The Lord our God delivered everything to us,
37. except the land of the sons of Ammon, which we did not approach, and all that is adjacent to the torrent Jabbok, and the cities in the mountains, and all the places which the Lord our God prohibited to us."