Numbers 21:21-30

²¹Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying, ²²“Let me pass through your land. We will not turn off into field or vineyard; we will not drink water from wells. We will go by the king’s road until we have passed through your border.” ²³But Sihon would not permit Israel to pass through his border. Instead, Sihon gathered all his people and went out against Israel in the wilderness, and came to Jahaz and fought against Israel. ²⁴Then Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the sons of Ammon; for the border of the sons of Ammon was Jazer. ²⁵Israel took all these cities, and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all her villages. ²⁶For Heshbon was the city of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon. ²⁷For that reason those who use proverbs say,

“Come to Heshbon! Let it be built!

So let the city of Sihon be established.

28“For a fire spread from Heshbon,

A flame from the town of Sihon;

It devoured Ar of Moab,

The dominant heights of the Arnon.

29“Woe to you, Moab!

You are destroyed, people of Chemosh!

He has given his sons as fugitives,

And his daughters into captivity,

To an Amorite king, Sihon.

30“But we have shot them down with arrows,

Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon,

Then we have laid waste as far as Nophah,

Which reaches to Medeba.”