16. And from there—on to Beer. This is the well where Adonai said to Moses, “Gather the people and I will give them water.”
17. Then Israel sang this song, “Spring up, O well! Sing about it!”
18. The well the princes dug, that the nobles of the people sank with their scepter and their staffs.” From the wilderness they went on to Mattanah.
19. From Mattanah they went on to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth,
20. and from Bamoth to the valley in the field of Moab where the peak of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.
21. Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites saying,
22. “Permit us to pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field or vineyard nor drink water from the wells. We will travel on the king’s highway until we will have passed through your territory.”
23. But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. Instead, Sihon called out his entire army and marched out into the desert to oppose Israel. When he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.
24. But Israel struck him by the sword’s edge and conquered his land from Arnon to Jabbok as far as the Ammonites, because the border of the sons of Ammon was fortified.
25. Israel conquered all these cities and occupied all the Amorite cities, Heshbon and all its towns.
26. Heshbon was the city of King Sihon of the Amorites, who had fought with the former king of Moab and had taken from his control all the land as far as the Arnon.
27. Therefore the poets say, “Come to Heshbon! Let her be rebuilt! Let the city of Sihon be restored!
28. For fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon! It consumed Ar of Moab, the masters of Arnon’s heights!
29. Woe to you, O Moab! You have been destroyed, people of Chemosh! He has given up his sons as refugees and his daughters as captives to Sihon, king of the Amorites.
30. But we overthrew them! Heshbon as far as Dibon is destroyed! We have demolished them as far as Nophah up to Medeba.”