23 And Siʹhon did not allow Israel to pass through his territory,+ but Siʹhon gathered all his people and went out to meet Israel in the wilderness, and came to Jaʹhaz+ and began fighting with Israel.

2 Siʹhon+ the king of the Amʹor·ites, who dwelt in Heshʹbon,+ ruling from A·roʹer,+ which was on the bank of the torrent valley of Arʹnon,+ and the middle of the torrent valley, and half of Gilʹe·ad as far as Jabʹbok+ the torrent valley, the boundary of the sons of Amʹmon,