Deu 2:26-37 | ESV | STEP | So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon the king of Heshbon , with words of peace , saying ,

26 “So I sent messengers from the wilderness of ^aKedemoth to Sihon the king of ^bHeshbon, ^cwith words of peace, saying, 27 ^d‘Let me pass through your land. I will go only by the road; I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left. 28 ^eYou shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink. Only let me pass through on foot, 29 ^fas the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I go over the Jordan into the land that the Lord our God is giving to us.’ 30 But ^gSihon the king of ^hHeshbon would not let us pass by him, for the Lord your God ⁱhardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as he is this day. 31 And the Lord said to me, ‘Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to take possession, that you may occupy his land.’ 32 Then ^jSihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. 33 And ^kthe Lord our God gave him over to us, and ^lwe defeated him and his sons and all his people. 34 And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction ^{▼▼That is, set apart ( devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)} every ⁿcity, men, women, and children. We left no survivors. 35 Only the livestock we took as spoil for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities that we captured. 36 ^oFrom Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from ^pthe city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. ^qThe Lord our God gave all into our hands. 37 Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river ^rJabbok and the cities of the hill country, whatever the Lord our God had forbidden us.