Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 2:30 
Context2:30 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 17:16
Context17:16 Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so, 5 for the Lord has said you must never again return that way.
Deuteronomy 20:16
Context20:16 As for the cities of these peoples that 6 the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing 7 to survive.
Deuteronomy 28:25
Context28:25 “The Lord will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror 8 to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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 “in order to multiply horses.” The translation uses “do so” in place of “multiply horses” to avoid redundancy (cf. NAB, NIV).
6 tn The antecedent of the relative pronoun is “cities.”
7 tn Heb “any breath.”
8 tc The meaningless MT reading זַעֲוָה (za’avah) is clearly a transposition of the more commonly attested Hebrew noun זְוָעָה (zÿva’ah, “terror”).
