Deuteronomy 2:26–3:22

²⁶And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon ^fwith words of peace, saying, ^27gLet me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left. ^28hThou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet; ²⁹( ⁱas the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the Lord our God giveth us. ³⁰But ^kSihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the Lord thy God ^lhardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day. ³¹And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: ^mbegin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land. ³²Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight ⁿat Jahaz. ³³And ^othe Lord our God delivered him before us; and ^pwe smote him, and his sons, and all his people. ³⁴And we took all his cities at that time, and ^qutterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain: ³⁵only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took. ^36rFrom Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: ^sthe Lord our God delivered all unto us: ³⁷only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river ^tJabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto ^uwhatsoever the Lord our God forbad us.

III.Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and ^aOg the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle ^bat Edrei. ²And the Lord said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto ^cSihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. ³So the Lord our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: ^dand we smote him until none was left to him remaining. ⁴And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, ^eall the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ⁵All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside ^funwalled towns a great many. ⁶And we ^gutterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king ^hof Heshbon, utterly destroying ⁱthe men, women, and children, of every city. ⁷But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. ⁸And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon; ⁹(which ^jHermon the Sidonians call ^kSirion; and the Amorites call it ^lShenir;) ¹⁰all the cities of ^mthe plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto ⁿSalchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ¹¹For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of ^ogiants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in ^pRabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit ^qof a man. ¹²And this land, which we possessed at that time, ^rfrom Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and ^sthe cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites. ¹³And ^tthe rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; ^uall the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of ^xgiants. ^14yJair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of ^zGeshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashan-^yhavoth-jair, unto this day. ^15aAnd I gave Gilead unto Machir. ¹⁶And unto the Reubenites ^band unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon, half the valley, and the border, even unto the river Jabbok, ^cwhich is the border of the children of Ammon; ¹⁷the plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from ^dChinnereth ^eeven unto the sea of the plain, ^feven the salt sea, under Ashdoth-pisgah eastward.

¹⁸And I commanded you at that time, saying, The Lord your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over ^garmed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war. ¹⁹But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for ^hI know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you; ²⁰until ⁱthe Lord have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto 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 unto his possession, which I have given you. ²¹And I commanded ^kJoshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the Lord your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the Lord do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest. ²²Ye shall not fear them: for ^lthe Lord your God he shall fight for you.