Deuteronomy 2:26–3:17

King Sihon Defeated

²⁶“And I ^dsent messengers from the Wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon, ^ewith words of peace, saying, ^27f‘Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the road, and I will turn neither to the right nor to the left. ²⁸You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink; ^gonly let me pass through on foot, ^29hjust as the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land which the Lord our God is giving us.’

³⁰ⁱ“But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for ^jthe Lord your God ^khardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as it is this day.

³¹“And the Lord said to me, ‘See, I have begun to ^lgive Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to possess it, that you may inherit his land.’ ^32mThen Sihon and all his people came out against us to fight at Jahaz. ³³And ⁿthe Lord our God delivered him ²over to us; so ^owe defeated him, his sons, and all his people. ³⁴We took all his cities at that time, and we ^putterly destroyed the men, women, and little ones of every city; we left none remaining. ³⁵We took only the livestock as plunder for ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we took. ^36qFrom Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, and from ^rthe city that is in the ravine, as far as Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us; ^sthe Lord our God delivered all to us. ³⁷Only you did not go near the land of the people of Ammon—anywhere along the River ^tJabbok, or to the cities of the mountains, or ^uwherever the Lord our God had forbidden us.

King Og Defeated

3“Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan; and ^aOg king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle ^bat Edrei. ²And the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand; you shall do to him as you did to ^cSihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.’

³“So the Lord our God also delivered into our hands Og king of Bashan, with all his people, and we ¹attacked him until he had no survivors remaining. ⁴And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, ^dall the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ⁵All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many rural towns. ⁶And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king ^eof Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city. ⁷But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as booty for ourselves.

⁸“And at that time we took the ^fland from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were on this side of the Jordan, from the River Arnon to Mount ^gHermon ⁹(the Sidonians call ^hHermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir), ¹⁰ⁱall the cities of the plain, all Gilead, and ^jall Bashan, as far as Salcah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

^11k“For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of ^lthe ²giants. Indeed his bedstead was an iron bedstead. (Is it not in ^mRabbah of the people of Ammon?) Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit.

The Land East of the Jordan Divided

¹²“And this ⁿland, which we possessed at that time, ^ofrom Aroer, which is by the River Arnon, and half the mountains of Gilead and ^pits cities, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites. ^13qThe rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. (All the region of Argob, with all Bashan, was called the land of the ³giants. ^14rJair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, ^sas far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and ^tcalled Bashan after his own name, ⁴Havoth Jair, to this day.)

¹⁵“Also I gave ^uGilead to Machir. ¹⁶And to the Reubenites ^vand the Gadites I gave from Gilead as far as the River Arnon, the middle of the river as the border, as far as the River Jabbok, ^wthe border of the people of Ammon; ¹⁷the plain also, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth ^xas far as the east side of the Sea of the Arabah ^y(the Salt Sea), below the slopes of Pisgah.