Numbers 21:21-30

211Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying, 22“2Let me pass through your land. We will not turn off into field or vineyard; we will not drink water from wells. We will go by the king’s highway until we have passed through your border.” 233But Sihon would not permit Israel to pass through his border. So Sihon gathered all his people and went out against Israel in the wilderness, and came to 4Jahaz and fought against Israel. 24Then 5Israel 6struck him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the sons of Ammon; for the 7border of the sons of Ammon was 8Jazer. 25Israel took all these cities and 9Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all her 10villages. 26For Heshbon was the city of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon. 27Therefore those who use proverbs say, “Come to Heshbon! Let it be built! So let the city of Sihon be established.2811For a fire went forth from Heshbon, A flame from the town of Sihon; It devoured 12Ar of Moab, The 1314dominant 15heights of the Arnon.2916Woe to you, O Moab! You are ruined, O people of 17Chemosh! 18He has given his sons as fugitives, 19And his daughters into captivity, To an Amorite king, Sihon.30But we have cast them down, Heshbon is ruined as far as 20Dibon, Then we have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.”