Deuteronomy 3
1 “Then we turned and went up along the road to Bashan. Og, king of Bashan, came out to meet us for battle at Edrei, he and all his people.
2 The LORD said to me, ‘Do not be afraid of him, because I have handed over to you this king, all his people, and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.’
3 The LORD our God also handed over to us Og, king of Bashan, and all his people. We defeated him until not a single survivor was left.
4 At that time we captured all his cities. There was not a town we failed to take from them: sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, Og’s kingdom in Bashan.
5 All of these were fortified cities, with high walls, gates, and bars, besides the very many unwalled villages.
6 We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon, king of Heshbon. We devoted every city to destruction, with its men, women, and children.
7 But we kept for ourselves all the livestock and the plunder from the cities.
8 At that time we took from the two Amorite kings the land beyond the Jordan, from the Arnon River to Mount Hermon.
9 The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.
10 All the towns of the plateau, all Gilead, and all Bashan as far as Salcah and Edrei, the cities of Og’s kingdom in Bashan.
11 Only Og, king of Bashan, remained of the survivors of the Rephaim. His bed was an iron bed. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide, by the standard cubit.
12 At that time we took possession of this land. From Aroer, beside the Arnon River, and half the hill country of Gilead with its towns, I gave it to the Reubenites and Gadites.
13 The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, Og’s kingdom, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh: the whole region of Argob, all of Bashan. That land was called the land of the Rephaim.
14 Jair, son of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites. He named those lands of Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, as they are called to this day.
15 And to Machir I gave Gilead.”
16 “To the Reubenites and Gadites I gave land from Gilead to the Arnon River, with the middle of the valley as the boundary, and to the Jabbok River, the border of the Ammonites.
17 I also gave them the Arabah, with the Jordan as its boundary, from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, below the slopes of Pisgah to the east.
18 At that time I commanded you: ‘The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. All your able fighting men must cross over armed ahead of your fellow Israelites.
19 Only your wives, your children, and your livestock—I know you have many livestock—may stay in the towns I gave you.
20 Stay until the LORD gives your fellow Israelites rest, as he has given you. They too will take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may return to the property I gave you.’
21 At that time I commanded Joshua: ‘You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD your God did to these two kings. The LORD will do the same to all the kingdoms you are about to enter.
22 Do not be afraid of them, because the LORD your God is the one who fights for you.’
23 At that time I pleaded with the LORD:
24 ‘Lord GOD, you have begun to show your servant your greatness and your strong hand. What god in heaven or on earth can do works and mighty deeds like yours?
25 Please let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, this good hill country and Lebanon.’
26 But the LORD was angry with me because of you and would not listen to me. The LORD said to me, ‘That is enough! Do not speak to me any more about this.
27 Go up to the top of Pisgah. Lift your eyes west, north, south, and east, and look with your own eyes, because you will not cross this Jordan.
28 Give Joshua his orders, encourage him, and strengthen him, because he will cross over ahead of this people, and he will enable them to inherit the land you will see.’
29 So we stayed in the valley opposite Beth-peor.”
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