By God's allowance, that so Sihon's malice might be the more evident and inexcusable, and that their title to his country more clear in the judgments of all men, as being gotten by a just war, into which they were forced for their own defence.
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Numbers 21:21
21 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,