Command to Conquer Sihon the Amorite

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"'Get up, get moving, and cross the Arnon Valley! Here, I have put in your hands Sichon the Emori, king of Heshbon, and his land; commence the conquest, begin the battle!

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Today I will start putting the fear and dread of you into all the peoples under heaven, so that the mere mention of your name will make them quake and tremble before you.'

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

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

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

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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.'

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"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.

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ADONAI said to me, 'See, I have begun handing over Sichon and his territory before you; start taking possession of his land.'

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Then Sichon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Yahatz;

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and ADONAI our God handed him over to us, so that we defeated him, his sons and all his people.

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At that time we captured all his cities and completely destroyed every city - men, women, little ones - we left none of them.

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As booty for ourselves we took only the cattle, along with the spoil from the cities we had captured.

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From 'Aro'er, on the edge of the Arnon Valley, and from the city in the valley, all the way to Gil'ad, there was not one city too well fortified for us to capture -ADONAI our God gave all of them to us.

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The only land you didn't approach was that of the descendants of 'Amon - the region around the Yabok River, the cities in the hills and wherever else ADONAI our God forbade us to go.

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