And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.
Ver. 19. Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land.] This he not only denied to do, but came out with all his forces to fight with them. John, king of Navarre, did none of all this: but because, being himself a Frenchman, and having the greatest part of his patrimony in France, he would not suffer the Spaniard, whom the Pope then favoured against Louis, king of France, to lead his army through the middle of his country into Aquitane; and because he would not deliver up to the Spaniard three of his strongest forts to be garrisoned against the French king, &c., he was presently proclaimed a schismatic, a heretic, a traitor to the see apostolic, deprived of his kingdom, his posterity disinherited, and his enemy put into possession of all. a
a Guicciardin.