2 ²⁶ "So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon the king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying, 2 ²⁷ '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. 2 ²⁸ 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, 2 ²⁹ 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 which Yahweh our God gives to us.' 2 ³⁰ But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as at this day. 2 ³¹ And Yahweh 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.' 2 ³² Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. 2 ³³ And Yahweh our God gave him over to us; and we defeated him and his sons and all his people. 2 ³⁴ And we captured all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed every city, men, women, and children; we left none remaining; 2 ³⁵ only the cattle we took as spoil for ourselves, with the booty of the cities which we captured. 2 ³⁶ From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Yahweh our God gave all into our hands. 2 ³⁷ Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us.