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¹Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.[ † ]Numbers 21:33-35Deuteronomy 29:7Deuteronomy 1:4 ²But the Lord said to me, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”[ † ]Numbers 21:34Joshua 13:21

³So the Lord our God also delivered Og king of Bashan and his whole army into our hands. We struck them down until no survivor was left.

⁴At that time we captured all sixty of his cities. There was not a single city we failed to take—the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.[ † ]Deuteronomy 3:13-14 ⁵All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages. ⁶We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.[ † ]Deuteronomy 2:24-34, 35

⁷But all the livestock and plunder of the cities we carried off for ourselves.

⁸At that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon—[ † ]Numbers 32:33Joshua 12:6Joshua 13:8-12Deuteronomy 4:481 Chronicles 5:23 ⁹which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir—[ † ]1 Chronicles 5:23 ¹⁰all the cities of the plateau, all of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far as the cities of Salecah and Edrei in the kingdom of Og.[ † ]Deuteronomy 4:49Joshua 12:5Joshua 13:11

¹¹(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)[ † ]Amos 2:9Genesis 14:5Deuteronomy 2:11-202 Samuel 12:26Jeremiah 49:2Ezekiel 21:20

¹²So at that time we took possession of this land. To the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the land beyond Aroer along the Arnon Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead, along with its cities.[ † ]Numbers 32:33Joshua 12:6Joshua 13:8-12Deuteronomy 2:36Joshua 12:2Numbers 34:14

¹³To the half-tribe of Manasseh I gave the rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og. (The entire region of Argob, the whole territory of Bashan, used to be called the land of the Rephaim.)[ † ]Joshua 13:29-31Joshua 17:1 ¹⁴Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this day.[ † ]1 Chronicles 2:22Joshua 13:132 Samuel 3:32 Samuel 10:6Numbers 32:41

¹⁵To Machir I gave Gilead,[ † ]Numbers 32:39-40 ¹⁶and to the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead to the Arnon Valley (the middle of the valley was the border) and up to the Jabbok River, the border of the Ammonites.[ † ]2 Samuel 24:5Numbers 21:24Deuteronomy 2:37Joshua 12:2 ¹⁷The Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.[ † ]Numbers 34:11-12Deuteronomy 4:49Joshua 12:3Genesis 14:3Joshua 3:16

¹⁸At that time I commanded you: “The Lord your God has given you this land to possess. All your men of valor are to cross over, armed for battle, ahead of your brothers, the Israelites.[ † ]Numbers 32:20Joshua 4:12-13 ¹⁹But your wives, your children, and your livestock—I know that you have much livestock—may remain in the cities I have given you, ²⁰until the Lord gives rest to your brothers as He has to you, and they too have taken possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving them across the Jordan. Then each of you may return to the possession I have given you.”[ † ]Deuteronomy 12:9-10Joshua 22:4

²¹And at that time I commanded Joshua: “Your own eyes have seen all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings. The Lord will do the same to all the kingdoms you are about to enter.[ † ]Numbers 27:22-23Joshua 11:23 ²²Do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God Himself will fight for you.”[ † ]Exodus 14:14Deuteronomy 1:30Deuteronomy 20:4Nehemiah 4:20

²³At that time I also pleaded with the Lord:[ † ]2 Corinthians 12:8-9 ²⁴“O Lord God, You have begun to show Your greatness and power to Your servant. For what god in heaven or on earth can perform such works and mighty acts as Yours?[ † ]Deuteronomy 5:24Deuteronomy 11:2Exodus 8:10Exodus 15:112 Samuel 7:22Psalms 71:19Psalms 86:8 ²⁵Please let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan—that pleasant hill country as well as Lebanon!”[ † ]Exodus 3:8Deuteronomy 4:22

²⁶But the Lord was angry with me on account of you, and He would not listen to me. “That is enough,” the Lord said to me. “Do not speak to Me again about this matter.[ † ]Numbers 20:12Numbers 27:14Deuteronomy 1:37Deuteronomy 31:2Deuteronomy 32:51-52Deuteronomy 34:4 ²⁷Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west and north and south and east. See the land with your own eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan.[ † ]Numbers 23:14Numbers 27:12 ²⁸But commission Joshua, encourage him, and strengthen him, for he will cross over ahead of the people and enable them to inherit the land that you will see.”[ † ]Numbers 27:18-23Deuteronomy 31:3-7, 8, 23

²⁹So we stayed in the valley opposite Beth-peor.[ † ]Deuteronomy 4:46Deuteronomy 34:6