Deuteronomy 3:1–13

Israel Conquers King Og

3“Next, we moved north towards the region of Bashan, and King Og came out with all his men to fight us near the town of Edrei. ²But the Lord said to me, ‘Don’t be afraid of him. I am going to give him, his men, and all his territory to you. Do the same to him as you did to Sihon the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon.’

³“So the Lord also placed King Og and his people in our power, and we slaughtered them all. ⁴At the same time we captured all his towns—there was not one that we did not take. In all we captured 60 towns—the whole region of Argob, where King Og of Bashan ruled. ⁵All these towns were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars to lock the gates, and there were also many villages without walls. ⁶We destroyed all the towns and put to death all the men, women, and children, just as we did in the towns that belonged to King Sihon of Heshbon. ⁷We took the livestock and plundered the towns.

⁸“At that time we took from those two Amorite kings the land east of the River Jordan, from the River Arnon to Mount Hermon. ⁹(Mount Hermon is called Sirion by the Sidonians, and Senir by the Amorites.) ¹⁰We took all the territory of King Og of Bashan: the cities on the plateau, the regions of Gilead and of Bashan, as far east as the towns of Salecah and Edrei.”

¹¹(King Og was the last of the Rephaim. His coffin,^b made of stone,^c was 4 metres long and almost 2 metres wide according to standard measurements. It can still be seen in the Ammonite city of Rabbah.)

The Tribes That Settled East of the Jordan

¹²“When we took possession of the land, I assigned to the tribes of Reuben and Gad the territory north of the town of Aroer near the River Arnon and part of the hill country of Gilead, along with its towns. ¹³To half the tribe of Manasseh I assigned the rest of Gilead and also all of Bashan, where Og had ruled, that is, the entire Argob region.”

(Bashan was known as the land of the Rephaim.