Numbers 21:21-26

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King Sihon Defeated

²¹Then ^(A)Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, ²²^(B)“Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field or vineyard. We will not drink the water of a well. We will go by the King's Highway until we have passed through your territory.” ²³^(C)But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. He gathered all his people together and went out against Israel to the wilderness and ^(D)came to Jahaz and fought against Israel. ²⁴^(E)And Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the ^(F)Jabbok, as far as to the Ammonites, for the border of the Ammonites was strong. ²⁵And Israel took all these cities, and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages. ²⁶For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon.

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Deuteronomy 2:26-37

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The Defeat of King Sihon

²⁶“So I sent messengers from the wilderness of ^(A)Kedemoth to Sihon the king of ^(B)Heshbon, ^(C)with words of peace, saying, ²⁷^(D)‘Let me pass through your land. I will go only by the road; I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left. ²⁸^(E)You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink. Only let me pass through on foot, ²⁹^(F)as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I go over the Jordan into the land that the Lord our God is giving to us.’ ³⁰But ^(G)Sihon the king of ^(H)Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the Lord your God ^(I)hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as he is this day. ³¹And the Lord said to me, ‘Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to take possession, that you may occupy his land.’ ³²Then ^(J)Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. ³³And ^(K)the Lord our God gave him over to us, and ^(L)we defeated him and his sons and all his people. ³⁴And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction^[a] every ^(M)city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors. ³⁵Only the livestock we took as spoil for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities that we captured. ³⁶^(N)From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from ^(O)the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. ^(P)The Lord our God gave all into our hands. ³⁷Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river ^(Q)Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, whatever the Lord our God had forbidden us.