3:1 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the
king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to
battle at Edrei.
3:2 And the LORD said to me, Fear him not: for I will deliver
him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou
shalt do to him as thou didst to Sihon king of the Amorites,
who dwelt at Heshbon.
3:3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also the
king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none
was left to him remaining.
3:4 And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a
city which we took not from them, sixty cities, all the region
of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
3:5 All these cities [were] fortified with high walls, gates,
and bars; besides unwalled towns a great number.
3:6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of
Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of
every city.
3:7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for
a prey to ourselves.
3:8 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of
the Amorites the land that [was] on this side of Jordan, from
the river of Arnon to mount Hermon;
3:9 ([Which] Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites
call it Shenir;)
3:10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all
Bashan, to Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in
Bashan.
3:11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of
giants; behold, his bedstead [was] a bedstead of iron; [is] it
not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits [was] the
length of it, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the
cubit of a man.
3:12 And this land, [which] we possessed at that time, from
Aroer, which [is] by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead,
and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
3:13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, [being] the kingdom
of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of
Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
3:14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob, to
the borders of Geshuri, and Maachathi; and called them after
his own name, Bashan-havoth-jair, to this day.
3:15 And I gave Gilead to Machir.
3:16 And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead
even to the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even to
the river Jabbok, [which is] the border of the children of
Ammon:
3:17 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast [of it], from
Chinnereth even to the sea of the plain, [even] the salt-sea,
under Ashdoth-pisgah eastward.
3:18 And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God
hath given you this land to possess it; ye shall pass over
armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all [that
are] meet for the war.
3:19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle,
([for] I know that ye have many cattle,) shall abide in your
cities which I have given you;
3:20 Until the LORD shall have given rest to your brethren, as
well as to you, and [until] they also possess the land which
the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and [then]
shall ye return every man to his possession which I have given
you.
3:21 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thy eyes have
seen all that the LORD your God hath done to these two kings:
so shall the LORD do to all the kingdoms whither thou passest.
3:22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall
fight for you.
3:23 And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,
3:24 O LORD God, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy
greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God [is there] in
heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and
according to thy might?
3:25 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that
[is] beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
3:26 But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would
not hear me: and the LORD said to me, Let it suffice thee;
speak no more to me of this matter.
3:27 Ascend to the top of Pisgah, and lift up thy eyes westward,
and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold with thy
eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
3:28 But charge 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 thou shalt see.
3:29 So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor.
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