24. Advance now across the Wadi Arnon. I now deliver into your power Sihon, the Amorite king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession; engage him in battle.
25. This day I will begin to put a fear and dread of you into the peoples everywhere under heaven, so that at the mention of your name they will quake and tremble before you.
26. So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon, king of Heshbon, with this offer of peace:
27. “Let me pass through your country. I will travel only on the road. I will not turn aside either to the right or to the left.
28. The food I eat you will sell me for money, and the water I drink, you will give me for money. Only let me march through,
29. as the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar have done, until I cross the Jordan into the land the Lord, our God, is about to give us.”