2:26 Then I sent messengers from the Kedemoth 1 Desert to King Sihon of Heshbon with an offer of peace: 2:27 “Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the roadway. 2 I will not turn aside to the right or the left. 2:28 Sell me food for cash 3 so that I can eat and sell me water to drink. 4 Just allow me to go through on foot, 2:29 just as the descendants of Esau who live at Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land the Lord our God is giving us.” 2:30 But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the Lord our 5 God had made him obstinate 6 and stubborn 7 so that he might deliver him over to you 8 this very day. 2:31 The Lord said to me, “Look! I have already begun to give over Sihon and his land to you. Start right now to take his land as your possession.” 2:32 When Sihon and all his troops 9 emerged to encounter us in battle at Jahaz, 10 2:33 the Lord our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, along with his sons 11 and everyone else. 12 2:34 At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them 13 under divine judgment, 14 including even the women and children; we left no survivors. 2:35 We kept only the livestock and plunder from the cities for ourselves. 2:36 From Aroer, 15 which is at the edge of Wadi Arnon (it is the city in the wadi), 16 all the way to Gilead there was not a town able to resist us – the Lord our God gave them all to us. 2:37 However, you did not approach the land of the Ammonites, the Wadi Jabbok, 17 the cities of the hill country, or any place else forbidden by the Lord our God.