The Bible

Deuteronomy Chapter 3

¹Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan. Og king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. ²Yahweh said to me, "Don't fear him; for I have delivered him, with all his people and his land, into your hand. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon."

³So Yahweh our God also delivered into our hand Og king of Bashan, and all his people. We struck him until no one was left to him remaining. ⁴We 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. ⁵All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, in addition to a great many villages without walls. ⁶We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. ⁷But all the livestock, and the plunder of the cities, we took as plunder for ourselves. ⁸We 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 of the remnant of the Rephaim. Look, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Isn't it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? It was nine cubit long, and four cubits wide, according to the cubit of a man.) ¹²We took possession of this land 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 [it] to the Reubenites and to the Gadites; ¹³and 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 (which is called the land of Rephaim. ¹⁴Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.) ¹⁵I gave Gilead to Machir. ¹⁶To 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; ¹⁷also the Arabah, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

¹⁸I commanded you at that time, saying, "Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it. All of you men of valor will pass over armed before your brothers, the children of Israel. ¹⁹But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have a lot of livestock), will live in your cities that I've given you, ²⁰until 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'll each return to your own possession, which I have given you."

²¹I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, "Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings. Yahweh will do the same to all the kingdoms into which you are [about] to enter. ²²Don't fear them; for Yahweh your God himself fights for you."

²³I begged Yahweh at that time, saying, ²⁴"LordOfMine Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth that can do works like yours, and mighty acts like yours? ²⁵Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that fine mountain, and Lebanon."

²⁶But Yahweh was angry with me because of you, and didn't listen to me. Yahweh said to me, "That's enough. Don't speak to me again about this matter. ²⁷Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift your eyes to the west, north, south, and east, and see [it] with your [own] eyes; but you will not be going over this Jordan. ²⁸Commission Joshua, encourage him, and strengthen him. He will go over before this people, and he'll cause them to inherit the land which you'll see." ²⁹So we stayed in the valley near Beth Peor.