Summary
The message that the ambassadors were to communicate to Sihon should make clear the peaceful intent of the Israelites: they would make safe passage, keeping to the highway, not ravaging the land.
The message that the ambassadors were to communicate to Sihon should make clear the peaceful intent of the Israelites: they would make safe passage, keeping to the highway, not ravaging the land.
27 ‘Let me pass through your land. I will go only by the road; I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left.