Deuteronomy 3

CHAPTER 3

Israel Takes Possession of the Land

¹“^aThen we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan, ¹with all his people, came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.

²“But Yahweh said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land over into your hand; and you shall do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.’

³“So Yahweh our God also gave Og, king of Bashan, with all his people over into our hand, and we struck ¹them until ²there was no survivor remaining for him.

⁴“And we captured all his cities at that time; there was not a town which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of ^aArgob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

⁵“All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates and bars, besides a great many ¹unwalled towns.

⁶“And we ¹devoted them to destruction, as we did to ^aSihon king of Heshbon, ^2bdevoting to destruction ³the men, women, and little ones of every city.

⁷“^aBut all the animals and the spoil of the cities we took as our plunder.

⁸“^aThus we took the land at that time from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the ¹valley of Arnon to Mount Hermon

⁹(Sidonians ^acall Hermon ^bSirion, and the Amorites call it ^cSenir):

¹⁰all the cities of the plateau and all Gilead and ^aall Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

¹¹(For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the ^aRephaim. Behold, his ¹bedstead was an iron ²bedstead; it is in ^bRabbah of the sons of Ammon. Its length was ³nine cubits, and its width four cubits ⁴by ordinary cubit.)

¹²“So we took possession of this land at that time. From ^aAroer, which is by the ¹valley of Arnon, and half the hill country of ^bGilead and its cities I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.

¹³“And the rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob. (Concerning all Bashan, it is called the land of Rephaim.

^14aJair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites and called ¹it—that is, Bashan—after his own name, ²Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.)

¹⁵“^aAnd to Machir I gave Gilead.

¹⁶“And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even as far as the ¹valley of Arnon, the middle of the ²valley ³as a border and as far as the ⁴river ^aJabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon;

¹⁷the Arabah also, with the Jordan ¹as a border, from ^2aChinnereth ^beven as far as the sea of the Arabah, ^cthe Salt Sea, ³at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah on the east.

¹⁸“Then I commanded you at that time, saying, ‘^aYahweh your God has given you this land to possess it; ^ball you men of valor shall cross over armed before your brothers, the sons of Israel.

¹⁹‘^aBut your wives and your little ones and your livestock (I know that you have ^bmuch livestock) shall remain in your cities which I have given you,

^20auntil Yahweh gives rest to your brothers as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your God will give them beyond the Jordan. ^bThen you may return, every man to his possession which I have given you.’

²¹“And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, ‘Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings; so Yahweh shall do to all the kingdoms into which you are about to cross.

²²‘Do not fear them, for Yahweh your God ^ais the one fighting for you.’

Moses Pleads to Cross the Jordan

²³“I also pleaded with Yahweh at that time, saying,

²⁴‘O Lord Yahweh, You have begun to show Your slave ^aYour greatness and Your strong hand; for what ^bgod is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as Yours?

²⁵‘Let me, I pray, cross over and see the ^agood land that is beyond the Jordan, ¹that good hill country and Lebanon.’

²⁶“But ^aYahweh was angry with me on your account and would not listen to me; and Yahweh said to me, ‘¹Enough! Speak to Me no more of this matter.

²⁷‘Go up to the top of ^aPisgah and lift up your eyes to the west and north and south and east, and see it with your eyes, ^bfor you shall not cross over this Jordan.

²⁸‘^aBut command Joshua and strengthen him and encourage him, ^bfor he shall go across ¹at the head of this people, and he will cause them to inherit the land which you will see.’

²⁹“So we remained in the valley opposite ^aBeth-peor.