25. Today I will make all people everywhere afraid of you. They will hear the news about you, and they will be afraid and shake with fear.’
26. “While we were in the desert of Kedemoth, I sent messengers to King Sihon of Heshbon. The messengers offered peace to Sihon. They said,
27. ‘Let us go through your land. We will stay on the road. We will not turn off the road to the right or to the left.
28. We will pay you in silver for any food we eat or any water we drink. We only want to march through your country.
29. Let us go through your land until we go across the Jordan River into the land that the Lord our God is giving us. Other people have let us go through their land—the people of Esau living in Seir and the Moabites living in Ar.’
30. “But King Sihon of Heshbon would not let us pass through his country. The Lord your God had made him very stubborn and ready to fight. The Lord did this so that he could help you defeat King Sihon. And today we know that is what happened.
31. “The Lord said to me, ‘I am giving King Sihon and his country to you. Now, go take his land!’
32. “Then King Sihon and all his people came out to fight against us at Jahaz.
33. But the Lord our God gave him to us. We defeated King Sihon, his sons, and all his people.
34. We captured all the cities that belonged to King Sihon at that time. We completely destroyed the people in every city—the men, women, and children. We did not leave anyone alive!
35. We took only the cattle and the valuable things from those cities.