Deuteronomy 3:1–13

Defeat of Og King of Bashan

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 2}The 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 4}At 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 5}All 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^bv 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 10}We 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