29 (As the [a]children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me) until I be come over Jordan, into the land which the Lord our God giveth us.

30 But Sihon the King of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the Lord thy God had [b]hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, because he would deliver him into thine hand, as appeareth this day.

31 And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess and inherit his land.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 2:29 Because neither entreaty nor examples or others could move him, he could not complain of his just destruction.
  2. Deuteronomy 2:30 God in his election and reprobation doth not only appoint the ends, but the means tending to the same.

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