17. Then Israel sang this song:Spring up, O well!—so sing to it—
18. The well that the princes sank,that the nobles of the people dug,With their scepters and their staffs—from the wilderness, a gift.
19. From Beer to Nahaliel, from Nahaliel to Bamoth,
20. from Bamoth to the valley in the country of Moab at the headland of Pisgah that overlooks Jeshimon.
21. Now Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, with the message,
22. “Let us pass through your land. We will not turn aside into any field or vineyard, nor will we drink any well water, but we will go straight along the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.”
23. Sihon, however, would not permit Israel to pass through his territory, but mustered all his forces and advanced against Israel into the wilderness. When he reached Jahaz, he engaged Israel in battle.
24. But Israel put him to the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and as far as Jazer of the Ammonites, for Jazer is the boundary of the Ammonites.
25. Israel seized all the towns here, and Israel settled in all the towns of the Amorites, in Heshbon and all its dependencies.