^{24 Ref} Get up now, and go on your journey, crossing over the valley of the Arnon: see, I have given into your hands Sihon, the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and all his land: go forward to make it yours, and make war on him,

^{25 Ref} From now on I will put the fear of you in all peoples under heaven, who, hearing of you, will be shaking with fear and grief of heart because of you.

^{26 Ref} Then from the waste land of Kedemoth I sent representatives to Sihon, king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying,

^{27 Ref} Let me go through your land: I will keep to the highway, not turning to the right or to the left;

^{28 Ref} Let me have food, at a price, for my needs, and water for drinking: only let me go through on foot;

^{29 Ref} As the children of Esau did for me in Seir and the Moabites in Ar; till I have gone over Jordan into the land which the Lord our God is giving us.

^{30 Ref} But Sihon, king of Heshbon, would not let us go through; for the Lord your God made his spirit hard and his heart strong, so that he might give him up into your hands as at this day.

^{31 Ref} And the Lord said to me, See, from now on I have given Sihon and his land into your hands: go forward now to take his land and make it yours.

^{32 Ref} Then Sihon came out against us with all his people, to make an attack on us at Jahaz.

^{33 Ref} And the Lord our God gave him into our hands; and we overcame him and his sons and all his people.

^{34 Ref} At that time we took all his towns, and gave them over to complete destruction, together with men, women, and children; we had no mercy on any:

^{35 Ref} Only the cattle we took for ourselves, with the goods from the towns we had taken.