Deuteronomy 2:26–3:17

²⁶“So I sent messengers with an offer of peace^f to King Sihon of Heshbon from the Wilderness of Kedemoth, saying, ²⁷‘Let us travel through your land; we will keep strictly to the highway. We will not turn to the right or the left.^{g 28}You can sell us food in exchange for silver so we may eat, and give us water for silver so we may drink. Only let us travel through on foot, ²⁹just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir did for us, and the Moabites who live in Ar, until we cross the Jordan into the land the Lord our God is giving us.’ ³⁰But King Sihon of Heshbon would not let us travel through his land, for the Lord your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to hand him over to you, as has now taken place.^h

³¹“Then the Lord said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land to you. Begin to take possession of it.’ ³²So Sihon and his whole army came out against us for battle at Jahaz. ³³The Lord our God handed him over to us,ⁱ and we defeated him, his sons, and his whole army. ³⁴At that time we captured all his cities and completely destroyed the people of every city, including the women and children. We left no survivors.^{j 35}We took only the livestock and the spoil from the cities we captured as plunder for ourselves. ³⁶There was no city that was inaccessible to^Ck us, from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead.^l The Lord our God gave everything to us. ³⁷But you did not go near the Ammonites’ land, all along the bank of the Jabbok River,^m the cities of the hill country, or any place that the Lord our God had forbidden.ⁿ

DEFEAT OF OG OF BASHAN

3“Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and King Og of Bashan^o came out against us with his whole army to do battle at Edrei.^{p 2}But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have handed him over to you along with his whole army and his land. Do to him as you did to King Sihon of the Amorites,^q who lived in Heshbon.’ ³So the Lord our God also handed over King Og of Bashan and his whole army to us. We struck him until there was no survivor left.^{r 4}We captured all his cities at that time. There wasn’t a city that we didn’t take from them: sixty cities, the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ⁵All these were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a large number of rural villages. ⁶We completely destroyed them, as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon, destroying the men, women, and children of every city. ⁷But we took all the livestock and the spoil from the cities as plunder for ourselves.^s

THE LAND OF THE TRANSJORDAN TRIBES

⁸“At that time we took the land from the two Amorite kings across the Jordan,^t from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon, ⁹which the Sidonians call Sirion, but the Amorites call Senir, ¹⁰all the cities of the plateau, Gilead, and Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of Og’s kingdom in Bashan.^{u 11}(Only King Og of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim.^v His bed^A was made of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the Ammonites?^a It is 13½ feet long and 6 feet wide by a standard measure.^B)^b

¹²“At that time we took possession of this land.^c I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites the area extending from Aroer by the Arnon Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead along with its cities. ¹³I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh the rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og. The entire region of Argob, the whole territory of Bashan, used to be called the land of the Rephaim. ¹⁴Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took over the entire region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He called Bashan by his own name, Jair’s Villages,^C as it is today. ¹⁵I gave Gilead to Machir, ¹⁶and I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites the area extending 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. ¹⁷The Arabah and Jordan are also borders from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Dead Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.^d