The Israelis defeated kings Sihon and Og

21 Then the Israelis sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group. This was the message that they/we gave him:

22 “Allow us to travel through your country. We will stay on the king’s highway, the main road that goes from the south to the north, until we have finished traveling through your land. We will not walk through any field or vineyard, or drink water from your wells.”

23 But King Sihon refused. He would not allow them to walk through his land. Instead, he sent his whole army to attack the Israelis in the desert. They attacked the Israelis at Jahaz village. 24 But the Israelis completely defeated them and occupied their land, from the Arnon River in the south to the Jabbok River in the north. They stopped at the border of the land where the Ammon people-group lived, because the Ammon army was defending the border strongly. 25 So the Israelis occupied all the cities and towns where the Amor people-group lived, and some of the Israelis began to live in them. They occupied Heshbon city and the nearby villages. 26 Heshbon was the capital of the country. It was the city where King Sihon ruled. His army had previously defeated the army of the king of Moab, and then his people had begun to live in all of the land of Moab as far as the Arnon River in the south.

27 For that reason, one of the poets wrote long ago,

“Come to Heshbon, the city where King Sihon ruled.

We want the city to be restored/rebuilt.

28 A fire blazed from Heshbon;

it burned down Ar city in Moab,

it destroyed everything on the hills along the Arnon River.

29 You people of Moab, terrible things have happened to you!

You people who worship your god Chemosh have been ◄annihilated/wiped out►!

The men who worshiped [MET] Chemosh have run away and are now refugees,

and the women who worshiped him have been captured by the army of Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group.

30 But we have defeated Sihon and those descendants of Amor,

all the way from Heshbon in the north to Dibon city in the south.

We have completely obliterated/destroyed them as far as Nophah and Medeba towns.”

31 So the Israeli people began to live in the land where the Amor people-group lived.

32 After Moses/I sent some men to explore the area near Jazer city, Israeli people began to live in all the towns in that region and expelled the Amor people-group who lived there. 33 Then they turned north toward the Bashan region, but King Og of Bashan and all his army attacked them at Edrei town.

34 Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Do not be afraid of Og, because I am going to enable your men to defeat him and his army, and to take possession of all his land. You will do to him what you did to Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group, who ruled in Heshbon.”

35 And that is what happened. We Israelis defeated Og’s army, and killed King Og and his sons and all his people. Not a person survived! And then we Israelis began to live in their land.