The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Deuteronomy 03
1 Then we turned, and went up the way
to Bashan. Og the king of Bashan came out
against us, he and all his people, to battle
at Edrei.
2 Yahweh said to me, “Don’t fear him; for
I have delivered him, with all his people
and his land, into your hand. You shall
do to him as you did to Sihon king of the
Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”
3 So Yahweh our God also delivered into
our hand Og,the king ofBashan, and all his
people. We struckhimuntilno one was left
to him remaining.
4 We took all his cities at that time. There
was not a city which we didn’t take from
them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob,
the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
5 All these were cities fortified with high
walls, gates, and bars, in addition to a great
many villages without walls.
6 We utterly destroyed them, as we did to
Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying
every inhabited city, with the women and
the little ones.
7 But all the livestock, and the plunder
of the cities, we took for plunder for ourselves.
8 We took the land at that time out of the
hand of the two kings of the Amorites who
were beyond the Jordan,from the valley of
the Arnon to Mount Hermon.
9 (The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and
the Amorites call it Senir.)
10 We took all the cities of the plain,
and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah
and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in
Bashan.
11 (For only Og king of Bashan remained
ofthe remnant ofthe Rephaim. Behold, his
bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Isn’t it in
Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine
cubits† was its length, and four cubits its
width, after the cubit of a man.)
12 This land we took in possession at that
time: from Aroer, which is by the valley
of the Arnon, and half the hill country of
Gilead with its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites;
13 and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan,
the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe
of Manasseh—all the region of Argob, even
all Bashan. (The same is called the land of
Rephaim.
14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the
regionof Argob,to theborder ofthe Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them,
even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth
Jair, to this day.)
15 I gave Gilead to Machir.
16 To the Reubenites and to the Gadites
I gave from Gilead even to the valley of
the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its
border, even to the river Jabbok, which is
the border of the children of Ammon;
17 the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its
border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of
the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes
of Pisgah eastward.
18 I commanded you at that time, saying,
“Yahweh your God has given you this land
to possess it. All of you men of valor shall
pass over armed before your brothers, the
children of Israel.
19 But your wives, and your little ones,
and your livestock, (I know that you have
much livestock), shall live in your cities
which I have given you,
20 until Yahweh gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the
land which Yahweh your God gives them
beyond the Jordan. Then you shall each
return to his own possession, which I have
given you.”
21 I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, “Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh
your God has done to these two kings. So
shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where
you go over.
22 You shall not fear them; for Yahweh
your God himself fights for you.”
23 I begged Yahweh at that time, saying,
24 “Lord‡ Yahweh, you have begun to
show your servant your greatness, and
your strong hand. For what god is there in
heaven or in earth that can do works like
yours, and mighty acts like yours?
25 Please let me go over and see the good
land that is beyond the Jordan, that fine
mountain, and Lebanon.”
26 But Yahweh was angry with me because of you, and didn’t listen to me.
Yahweh said to me, “That is enough! Speak no
more to me of this matter.
27 Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up
your eyes westward, and northward, and
southward, and eastward, and see with
your eyes; for you shall not go over this
Jordan.
28 But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall
go over before this people, and he shall
cause them to inherit the land which you
shall see.”
29 So we stayed in the valley near Beth
Peor.