27 Please let Israel go across your country. We will walk straight through, without turning off the road.
28-29 You can even sell us food and water, and we will pay with silver. We need to reach the River Jordan and cross it, because the Lord our God is giving us the land on the west side. The Edomites and Moabites have already let us cross their land. Please let us cross your land as well.
30-31 But Sihon refused to let us go across his country, because the Lord made him stubborn and eager to fight us. The Lord told me, “I am going to help you defeat Sihon and take his land, so attack him!”
32 We met Sihon and his army in battle at Jahaz,
33 and the Lord our God helped us defeat them. We killed Sihon, his sons, and everyone else in his army.
34 Then we captured and destroyed every town in Sihon's kingdom, killing everyone,
35 but keeping the livestock and everything else of value.