21 Then Yisrael (Israel) sent messengers to the Amori King Sihon, 22 “Let us pass through your country. We won’t turn off into any field or vineyard. We won’t take water from any well. We’ll stay on the king’s highway until we’ve exited at your northern border.” 23 However King Sihon refused them permission, then he took his whole army into the wilderness to meet Yisrael, and they attacked them at Yahats village. 24 Nevertheless, Yisrael defeated them in battle and took possession of his land from the Arnon river up as far as Yabok where the Amonim’ border was well fortified. 25 So Yisrael took those Amori cities including Heshbon and the surrounding villages, and started living in them. 26 (Heshbon was where the Amori King Sihon lived, as he’d previously fought against the former king of Moav (Moab) and captured all his land down as far as the Arnon river. 27 That was why the poets say,

“Come to Heshbon—let it be rebuilt.

≈ Let King Sihon’s city be established

28 because fire went out from Heshbon,

≈ flame from Sihon’s city.

It consumed Ar in Moav,

and the citizens on Arnon’s hilltops.[ref]

29 Moav, you won’t end well.

≈ Kemosh’s people have perished.

He’s made his sons into fugitives,

≈ and given his daughters over to captivity

by the Amori King Sihon.

30 We’ve overpowered them.

Heshbon has perished as far as Divon

≈ and shattered Nofah as far as Meydeva.)

31 So the Israelis lived in the Amori region 32 and Mosheh (Moses) sent some men to spy out Yazer, and they captured its villages and drove the Amorim out from there.

33 Then they turned and went up the road towards Bashan, but Bashan’s King Og came out with his army to meet them, and attacked them at Edre’i. 34 Yahweh said to Mosheh, “Don’t be afraid of him because I’ve given him and all his people and his land to you, and you’ll be able to do to him what you did to the Amori King Sihon who lived at Heshbon.” 35 So they overcame King Og and his sons and all his people until there were no remaining survivors, then they took possession of their land.

26 “Then from the Kedemot wilderness, I sent messengers to King Sihon at Heshbon with an offer of peace, 27 ‘Please let us travel through your country. We’ll stay on the road 28 if you’d be able to just sell us some food and water, then we could just walk right through 29 ⇔until we cross the Yarden (Jordan) river into the land that our god Yahweh is giving us. Esav’s (Esau’s) descendants at Se’ir allowed us through, as did the Moavim at Ar.’

30 “However, Heshbon’s King Sihon wouldn’t let us go through his country because your god Yahweh had hardened his spirit and made him stubborn so that you could take his land, which we still have to this day.

31 “Yahweh told me, ‘Listen, I’ve begun to give Sihon and his land to you, so enter it and take it. 32 Then King Sihon and all his warriors came out against us at Yahats, 33 but our god Yahweh helped us to defeat him, and we killed Sihon and his son, and all his people. 34 We captured all his cities at that time, and completely destroyed men, women and children in every city, leaving no survivors. 35 Only the cattle were taken as plunder for ourselves, along with the goods in the cities we captured. 36 ⇔Our god Yahweh helped us to capture all their towns from Aroer in the south at the edge of the Arnon River valley, to the Gilead region in the north—none of their city walls were too high for us. 37 However, you didn’t go near the Amoni region, the Yabok river area, the hill country towns, or any other place where our god Yahweh told us not to go.

3 “Then we turned and went towards the Bashan region but King Og came out with all his warriors to battle against us at Edre’i, 2 but Yahweh told me, ‘Don’t be afraid of him, because I’ve given him and all his people and his land over to you, and you’ll do the same to him that you did to the Amori King Sihon who lived at Heshbon.’

3 “So our god Yahweh also helped us defeat Bashan’s King Og and all his people, and we killed them all leaving no survivors. 4 We captured all sixty of King Og’s cities in the Argov region of Bashan, 5 even though they were all fortified with high walls and gates with bars. In addition, there were many rural villages. 6 We completely destroyed them like we’d done to Heshbon’s King Sihon—men, women, and children, 7 but we plundered all the cattle and the spoil from the cities for ourselves.

8 So at that time, we took the land from two of the Amori kings across on the eastern side of the Yarden (Jordan), from the Arnon River in the south, up to Mt. Hermon in the north 9 (called Mt. Siryon by the Tsidonim (Sidonians), and Mt. Senir by the Amorim). 10 We captured all the cities on the plain and all of the Gilead region, as well as Bashan as far east as Salkah and Edre’i cities, which also belonged to Og’s kingdom.” 11 (Bashan’s King Og was the last king who was a descendant of the Refaim. His bed (in Rabah in the Amoni region) was made out of iron and was four metres long and two metres wide.)