Deuteronomy 3:1–13

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.