Numbers 21:21-32

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 road until we have passed through your border.” 233But Sihon would not permit Israel to pass through his border. Instead, Sihon gathered all his people and went out against Israel in the wilderness, and came to 4Jahaz and fought against Israel. 24Then 5Israel struck 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 6border of the sons of Ammon was 7Jazer. 25Israel took all these cities, and 8Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all her 9villages. 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. 27For that reason those who use proverbs say, “Come to Heshbon! Let it be built! So let the city of Sihon be established.2810For a fire spread from Heshbon, A flame from the town of Sihon; It devoured 11Ar of Moab, The 1213dominant 14heights of the Arnon.2915Woe to you, Moab! You are destroyed, people of 16Chemosh! 17He has given his sons as fugitives, 18And his daughters into captivity, To an Amorite king, Sihon.30But we have shot them down with arrows, Heshbon is destroyed as far as 19Dibon, Then we have laid waste as far as Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.”

31So Israel lived in the land of the Amorites. 32Now Moses sent men to spy out 20Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.