Deuteronomy 2:24-35

24Then God said, ‘Now go across Arnon valley. Look, I have given you the land of King Sihon, the Amorite. He is the king of Heshbon. You must go and fight against him. Attack him and take his land for yourselves.

25Today I will begin to make all the people in the world afraid of you. They will hear reports about you. That will cause them to be very frightened. They will shake with fear!’

26When we were in Kedemoth desert, I sent a message to Sihon, king of Heshbon. We wanted to agree that we would not fight against each other.

27I said to him, ‘Please let us go through your country. We will only travel along the road. We will not turn away from the road, to the right side or to the left side.

28Please sell us food to eat and water to drink. We will pay you with silver coins. We only want to walk through your country.

29The descendants of Esau who live in Seir let us do this. So did the descendants of Moab who live in Ar. We will go through your country and then we will cross the Jordan River. We will go into the land that the Lord our God is giving to us.’

30But Sihon, the king of Heshbon, refused to let us travel through his country. He was too proud to agree with us. The Lord our God had caused him to be like that. He wanted to put King Sihon under your power and give his land to you. You still live in his land today.

31The Lord said to me, ‘Look! I have begun to give King Sihon and his country to you. Now you must begin to fight against him and take his land for yourselves.’

32Then Sihon and all his army came out to fight a battle against us at Jahaz.

33The Lord our God put him under our power. We won the battle against him. We killed King Sihon and his sons and all his soldiers.

34At that time we took all his towns and we gave everything as a gift to the Lord. We killed the men, women and children. We left no one alive.

35But we kept the farm animals and other valuable things in the cities for ourselves.