Bible Verses About Journey of Israel Through The Desert: The Amorites refuse a passage to Israel

Isra'el sent messengers to Sichon, king of the Emori, with this message:

"Let me pass through your land. We won't turn aside into fields or vineyards, and we won't drink any water from the wells. We will go along the King's Highway until we have left your territory."

But Sichon would not allow Isra'el to pass through his territory. Instead, Sichon mustered all his people and went out into the desert to fight Isra'el. On reaching Yachatz, he fought Isra'el.

"I sent envoys from the K'demot Desert to Sichon king of Heshbon with a peaceable message,

'Let me pass through your land. I will keep to the road, turning neither right nor left.

You will sell me food to eat for money and give me water to drink for money. I only want to pass through.

Do as the people of 'Esav living in Se'ir and the Mo'avim living in 'Ar did with me, until I cross the Yarden into the land ADONAI our God is giving us.'

"But Sichon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through his territory, because ADONAI your God had hardened his spirit and made him stubborn, so that he could hand him over to you, as is the case today.