Deuteronomy 2:24-37 - Defeat Of Sihon The Amorite
24 Moses continued: Cross over the Arnon River. I will help you defeat Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon and his country. Possess his land and engage him in battle. 25 From this day forward I will make all the people and nations through out the earth afraid of you. They will hear reports about you and tremble and be in anguish because of you.
26 I sent messengers from the desert of Kedemoth to King Sihon of Heshbon with the following offer of peace: 27 If you allow us to travel through your country, we will go straight through and will not leave the road. 28 We will pay you in silver for the food we eat and the water we drink. Please let us go through, 29 as the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, did for us. We will keep going until we cross the Jordan River into the land Jehovah our God is giving us.' 30 King Sihon of Heshbon would not allow us to pass through. Jehovah your God made him stubborn and overconfident in order to hand him over to you, as he has now done.
31 Then Jehovah said to me: 'I make King Sihon and his land helpless before you. Capture his land and occupy it.' 32 Sihon came out with all his men to fight us near the town of Jahaz, 33 and Jehovah our God helped us defeat them. We killed Sihon, his sons, and all his people. 34 We captured and destroyed every town in Sihon's kingdom. We killed everyone. 35 We took the livestock and everything else of value. 36 Jehovah helped us capture every town from the Arnon River Gorge north to the boundary of Gilead. This included the town of Aroer on the edge of the gorge and the town in the middle of the gorge. 37 However, we did not go near the Ammonite towns, both in the mountains and near the Jabbok River, just as Jehovah commanded.