27. ‘Let us pass through your country. We will go straight through and not leave the road.
28. We will pay for the food we eat and the water we drink. All we want to do is to pass through your country,
29. until we cross the River Jordan into the land that the Lord our God is giving us. The descendants of Esau, who live in Edom, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, allowed us to pass through their territory.’
30. “But King Sihon would not let us pass through his country. The Lord your God had made him stubborn and rebellious, so that we could defeat him and take his territory, which we still occupy.
31. “Then the Lord said to me, ‘Look, I have made King Sihon and his land helpless before you; take his land and occupy it.’
32. Sihon came out with all his men to fight us near the town of Jahaz,
33. but the Lord our God put him in our power, and we killed him, his sons, and all his men.
34. At the same time we captured and destroyed every town, and put everyone to death, men, women, and children. We left no survivors.
35. We took the livestock and plundered the towns.