Deuteronomy 2:24

2:24 Get up, make your way across Wadi Arnon. Look! I have already delivered over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, ¹  and his land. Go ahead! Take it! Engage him in war!

Deuteronomy 2:30

2:30 But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the Lord our ²  God had made him obstinate ³  and stubborn ⁴  so that he might deliver him over to you ⁵  this very day.

Deuteronomy 5:30

5:30 Go and tell them, ‘Return to your tents!’

Deuteronomy 33:7

Blessing on Judah

33:7 And this is the blessing ⁶  to Judah. He said,

Listen, O Lord, to Judah’s voice,

and bring him to his people.

May his power be great,

and may you help him against his foes.

¹ sn Heshbon is the name of a prominent site (now Tell Hesba„n, about 7.5 mi [12 km] south southwest of Amman, Jordan). Sihon made it his capital after having driven Moab from the area and forced them south to the Arnon (Num 21:26-30). Heshbon is also mentioned in Deut 1:4.

² tc The translation follows the LXX in reading the first person pronoun. The MT, followed by many English versions, has a second person masculine singular pronoun, “your.”

³ tn Heb “hardened his spirit” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV “made his spirit stubborn.”

⁴ tn Heb “made his heart obstinate” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “made his heart defiant.”

⁵ tn Heb “into your hand.”

³ tn The words “the blessing” are supplied in the translation for clarity and stylistic reasons.