Trusted not Israel. — Sihon did not believe their promise to pass peacefully through his land.
Pitched in Jahaz. — Numbers 21:33; Isaiah 15:4; Jeremiah 48:3. The site of the battle has not been ascertained.
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Judges 11:20
20 But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.