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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 The
LORD 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
the LORD our
God also delivered
into our hand
Og, the king
of Bashan, and
all his people.
We struck him
until no 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
of the remnant
of the 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 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.)
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, “The
LORD 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
the LORD gives
rest to
your brothers, as
to you, and
they also possess
the land which
the LORD 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 the LORD
your God has
done to these
two kings. So
shall the LORD
do to all
the kingdoms where
you go over.
22 You
shall not fear
them; for the
LORD your God
himself fights for
you.”
23 I
begged GOD at
that time, saying,
24 “Lord
GOD, 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
the LORD was
angry with me
because of you,
and didn’t listen
to me. The
LORD 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.