Deuteronomy 2:25-27

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁵ This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples everywhere under heaven; when they hear report of you, they will tremble and be in anguish because of you.’

Defeat of King Sihon

²⁶ So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to King Sihon of Heshbon with the following terms of peace: ²⁷ ‘If you let me pass through your land, I will travel only along the road; I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left.