3Next we turned and went up along the road toward Bashan, and Og king of Bashanⁿ with his whole army marched out to meet us in battle at Edrei.^o ²The Lord said to me, “Do not be afraid^p of him, for I have delivered him into your hands, along with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.”

³So the Lord our God also gave into our hands Og king of Bashan and all his army. We struck them down,^q leaving no survivors.^r ⁴At that time we took all his cities.^s There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take from them—the whole region of Argob, Og’s kingdom^t in Bashan.^u ⁵All these cities were fortified with high walls and with gates and bars, and there were also a great many unwalled villages. ⁶We completely destroyed^a them, as we had done with Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying^b^v every city—men, women and children. ⁷But all the livestock^w and the plunder from their cities we carried off for ourselves.

⁸So at that time we took from these two kings of the Amorites^x the territory east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge as far as Mount Hermon.^y ⁹(Hermon is called Sirion^z by the Sidonians; the Amorites call it Senir.)^a ¹⁰We took all the towns on the plateau, and all Gilead, and all Bashan as far as Salekah^b and Edrei, towns of Og’s kingdom in Bashan. ¹¹(Og king of Bashan was the last of the Rephaites.^c His bed was decorated with iron and was more than nine cubits long and four cubits wide.^c It is still in Rabbah^d of the Ammonites.)

Division of the Land

¹²Of the land that we took over at that time, I gave the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory north of Aroer^e by the Arnon Gorge, including half the hill country of Gilead, together with its towns. ¹³The rest of Gilead and also all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh.^f (The whole region of Argob in Bashan used to be known as a land of the Rephaites.^g ¹⁴Jair,^h a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maakathites;ⁱ it was named^j after him, so that to this day Bashan is called Havvoth Jair.^d) ¹⁵And I gave Gilead to Makir.^k ¹⁶But to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory extending from Gilead down to the Arnon Gorge (the middle of the gorge being the border) and out to the Jabbok River,^l which is the border of the Ammonites. ¹⁷Its western border was the Jordan in the Arabah,^m from Kinnerethⁿ to the Sea of the Arabah^o (that is, the Dead Sea^p), below the slopes of Pisgah.

¹⁸I commanded you at that time: “The Lord your God has given^q you this land to take possession of it. But all your able-bodied men, armed for battle, must cross over ahead of the other Israelites.^r ¹⁹However, your wives,^s your children and your livestock^t (I know you have much livestock) may stay in the towns I have given you, ²⁰until the Lord gives rest to your fellow Israelites as he has to you, and they too have taken over the land that the Lord your God is giving them across the Jordan. After that, each of you may go back to the possession I have given you.”

Moses Forbidden to Cross the Jordan

²¹At that time I commanded Joshua: “You have seen with your own eyes all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings. The Lord will do the same to all the kingdoms over there where you are going. ²²Do not be afraid^u of them;^v the Lord your God himself will fight^w for you.”

²³At that time I pleaded^x with the Lord: ²⁴“Sovereign Lord, you have begun to show to your servant your greatness^y and your strong hand. For what god^z is there in heaven or on earth who can do the deeds and mighty works^a you do?^b ²⁵Let me go over and see the good land^c beyond the Jordan—that fine hill country and Lebanon.^d”

²⁶But because of you the Lord was angry^e with me and would not listen to me. “That is enough,” the Lord said. “Do not speak to me anymore about this matter. ²⁷Go up to the top of Pisgah^f and look west and north and south and east.^g Look at the land with your own eyes, since you are not going to cross^h this Jordan.ⁱ ²⁸But commission^j Joshua, and encourage^k and strengthen him, for he will lead this people across^l and will cause them to inherit the land that you will see.” ²⁹So we stayed in the valley near Beth Peor.^m

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Footnotes

aThe Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.
bThe Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.
cThat is, about 14 feet long and 6 feet wide or about 4 meters long and 1.8 meters wide
dOr called the settlements of Jair

Cross references

nSee Nu 32:19
oSee Nu 21:33
p Jos 10:8; 2 Ki 19:6; Isa 7:4
qSee Nu 21:24
r Nu 21:35
sSee Nu 21:24
tver 13
uSee Nu 21:33
v Dt 2:24
w Dt 2:35
x Nu 32:33; Jos 13:8–12
y Dt 4:48; Jos 11:3, 17; 12:1; 13:5; Jdg 3:3; 1 Ch 5:23; Ps 42:6; 89:12; 133:3; SS 4:8
z Ps 29:6
a 1 Ch 5:23; SS 4:8; Eze 27:5
b Jos 12:5; 1 Ch 5:11
c Ge 14:5
d Jos 13:25; 15:60; 2 Sa 11:1; 12:26; 17:27; 1 Ch 20:1; Jer 49:2; Eze 21:20; 25:5; Am 1:14
e Dt 2:36
f Dt 29:8
gSee Ge 14:5
hSee Nu 32:41
i Jos 12:5; 13:11, 13; 2 Sa 10:6; 23:34; 2 Ki 25:23; 1 Ch 4:19; Jer 40:8
j Jos 19:47; Ps 49:11
kSee Ge 50:23; Nu 32:39–40
lSee Nu 21:24
m 2 Sa 2:29; 4:7; Eze 47:8
nSee Nu 34:11
oSee Dt 1:1
pSee Ge 14:3
q Jos 1:13
rSee Nu 32:17
s Jos 1:14
tSee Nu 32:16
uSee Dt 1:29
v Dt 7:18; 20:1; 31:6; 2 Ch 32:8; Ps 23:4; Isa 41:10
wSee Ex 14:14
x Dt 1:37; 31:2; 32:52; 34:4
y Dt 5:24; 11:2; 32:3
zSee Ex 8:10
a Ps 71:16; 106:2; 145:12; 150:2
b 2 Sa 7:22
c Dt 4:22
d Dt 1:7; Jos 1:4; 9:1; 11:17; 12:7; 13:5; Jdg 3:3; 9:15; 1 Ki 4:33
ever 27; Dt 1:37; 31:2
fSee Nu 21:20
gSee Ge 13:14
hSee ver 26; See Nu 20:12; Dt 32:52
iSee Nu 27:12
j Nu 27:18–23
k Dt 31:7
l Dt 1:38; 31:3, 23
mSee Nu 23:28; Dt 4:46; 34:6; Jos 13:20