26. So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon, king of Heshbon, with this offer of peace:
27. “Let me pass through your country. I will travel only on the road. I will not turn aside either to the right or to the left.
28. The food I eat you will sell me for money, and the water I drink, you will give me for money. Only let me march through,
29. as the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar have done, until I cross the Jordan into the land the Lord, our God, is about to give us.”
30. But Sihon, king of Heshbon, refused to let us pass through his land, because the Lord, your God, made him stubborn in mind and obstinate in heart that he might deliver him into your power, as indeed he has now done.
31. Then the Lord said to me, Now that I have already begun to give over to you Sihon and his land, begin to take possession.