26. “So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of shalom saying,
27. ‘Let me pass through your land—I will go only by way of the road. I will not turn to the right or to the left.
28. You will sell me food for money so that I may eat and give me water for money so that I may drink. Just let me pass through on foot—
29. as the sons of Esau dwelling in Seir and the Moabites in Ar did for me—until I cross over the Jordan into the land that Adonai our God is giving to us.’
30. But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, because Adonai your God stiffened his spirit and hardened his heart, in order to hand him over to you this very day.
31. “Adonai said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you—begin to take possession in order to take hold of his land.’
32. “Then Sihon came out against us—he and all his people—to battle at Jahaz.
33. Adonai our God gave him over to us, and we struck him down along with his sons and all his people.
34. We captured all his cities at that time, and utterly put under a ban of judgment every city—men, women and children. We left no survivor.
35. We took only the livestock as plunder for ourselves, as the spoils of the cities we captured.
36. From Aroer which is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon and the city by the wadi, all the way up to the Gilead, there was not a town too high for us. Adonai our God gave everything over to us.
37. Only you did not come near the land of the sons of Ammon—all along the Wadi Jabbok and the cities of the hill country and wherever Adonai our God had commanded.