Deuteronomy 2:30
2:30 But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the Lord our 1 God had made him obstinate 2 and stubborn 3 so that he might deliver him over to you 4 this very day.
Deuteronomy 29:20
29:20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger 5 will rage 6 against that man; all the curses 7 written in this scroll will fall upon him 8 and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory. 9
1 tc The translation follows the LXX in reading the first person pronoun. The MT, followed by many English versions, has a second person masculine singular pronoun, “your.”
2 tn Heb “hardened his spirit” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV “made his spirit stubborn.”
3 tn Heb “made his heart obstinate” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “made his heart defiant.”
4 tn Heb “into your hand.”
5 tn Heb “the wrath of the Lord and his zeal.” The expression is a hendiadys, a figure in which the second noun becomes adjectival to the first.
6 tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”
7 tn Heb “the entire oath.”
8 tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”
9 tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”