²⁶ “^(A)So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, ²⁷ ‘Let me pass through your land, I will ^[a]go only on the highway; I will not turn aside 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; ^(B)only let me pass through on ^[b]foot, ²⁹ just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in ^(C)Ar did for me, until I cross over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God is giving to us.’ ³⁰ But ^(D)Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass ^[c]through his land, for ^(E)Yahweh your God stiffened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to give him over into your hand, as he is today. ³¹ And Yahweh said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land ^[d]over to you. Begin to possess, so that you may fully possess his land.’

³² “Then Sihon ^[e]with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz. ^33 (F)But Yahweh our God gave him ^[f]over to us, and we ^(G)struck him down with his sons and all his people. ³⁴ So we captured all his cities at that time and ^[g](H)devoted to destruction ^[h]the men, women, and little ones of every city. We left no survivor remaining. ³⁵ We took ^(I)only the animals as our plunder and the spoil of the cities which we had captured. ³⁶ From ^(J)Aroer which is on the edge of the ^[i]valley of Arnon and from the city which is in the ^[j]valley, even to Gilead, there was not a town that was too high for us; Yahweh our God gave all ^[k]over to us. ^37 (K)Only you did not go near to the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the ^[l]river ^(L)Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God had commanded us.

¹⁹ And Israel sent ^(A)messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, “Please let us pass through your land to our place.”