23. And also the Avvites, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, and the Caphtorim, who came out from Caphtor, destroyed them and then settled in their place.
24. Arise, set out and cross over the wadi of Arnon. Look! I have given Sihon the Amorite, the king of Heshbon, and his land into your hand; begin to take possession of it, and engage with him in battle.
25. This day I will begin to place the dread of you and the fear of you before the peoples under all the heavens. They will hear the report about you, and so they will shake and tremble because of you.’
26. “So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon; I sent terms of peace, saying,
27. ‘Let me cross through your land and only along the road I will go; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left.
28. Food for money you shall sell me, so that I may eat, and water for money you will give to me, so that I may drink; just let me cross on foot.
29. Just as the descendants of Esau did for me, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, until I cross the Jordan into the land that Yahweh our God is giving to us.’
30. But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing to let us cross through his territory because Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made him obstinate in order to give him into your hand, just as he has now done.
31. Yahweh said to me, ‘Look! I have begun to give over to you Sihon and his land; begin to take possession of his land.’
32. Then Sihon and all his people came out to meet us for battle at Jahaz.
33. And so Yahweh our God gave him over to us, and we struck him down, and his sons and all of his people.
34. So we captured all of his cities at that time, and we destroyed each town of males and the women and the children; we did not leave behind a survivor.
35. We took only the livestock as spoil for ourselves, and also the booty of the cities that we had captured.
36. From Aroer, which is on the edge of the wadi of Arnon and the city that was in the wadi on up to Gilead, there was not a city that was inaccessible to us; Yahweh our God gave everything to us.
37. Only the land of the Ammonites you did not approach, all along the whole upper region of the Jabbok River and the towns of the hill country, according to all that Yahweh our God had instructed.