26 So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, 27 Let me pass through your land. I will go only by the road, turning aside neither to the right nor to the left. 28 You shall sell me food to eat and sell me water to drink; only let me walk through, 29 As the sons of Esau, who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites, who dwell in Ar, 1 did for me, until I go over the Jordan into the land which the Lord our God gives us. 30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for the Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that He might give him into your hand, as at this day. 31 And the Lord said to me [Moses], Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to take possession, that you may succeed him and occupy his land. 32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz. 33 And the Lord our God gave him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and all his people. 34 At the same time we took all his cities and utterly destroyed every city--men, women, and children. We left none to remain. 35 Only the cattle we took as booty for ourselves and the spoil of the cities which we had captured. 36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Arnon Valley, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was no city too high and strong for us; the Lord our God delivered all to us. 37 Only you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, that is, to any bank of the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the Lord our God had forbidden us.