Deuteronomy 2:26

Defeat of Sihon, King of Heshbon

2:26 Then I sent messengers from the Kedemoth ¹  Desert to King Sihon of Heshbon with an offer of peace:

Deuteronomy 3:6

3:6 We put all of these under divine judgment ²  just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon – every occupied city, ³  including women and children.

Deuteronomy 29:7

29:7 When you came to this place King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to make war and we defeated them.

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, ⁴  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 ⁵  God had made him obstinate ⁶  and stubborn ⁷  so that he might deliver him over to you ⁸  this very day.

¹ sn Kedemoth. This is probably Aleiyan, about 8 mi (13 km) north of the Arnon and between Dibon and Mattanah.

² tn Heb “we put them under the ban” (נַחֲרֵם, nakharem). See note at 2:34.

³ tn Heb “city of men.”

³ 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.

⁴ 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.”

⁵ tn Heb “hardened his spirit” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV “made his spirit stubborn.”

⁶ tn Heb “made his heart obstinate” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “made his heart defiant.”

⁷ tn Heb “into your hand.”