Deuteronomy 3:1–16

Defeat of King Og

³“When we headed up the road to Bashan, King Og of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, for battle at Edrei.^{* 2}The Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have handed him over to you, along with his people and his land. Do to him as you did to King Sihon of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.’^{* 3}So the Lord our God also handed over to us King Og of Bashan and all his people. We struck him down until not a single survivor was left.^{* 4}At that time we captured all his towns; there was no citadel that we did not take from them: sixty towns, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.^{* 5}All these were fortress towns with high walls, double gates, and bars, besides a great many villages. ⁶And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon, in each city utterly destroying men, women, and children.^{* 7}But all the livestock and the plunder of the towns we kept as spoil for ourselves.

⁸“So at that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land beyond the Jordan, from the Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon ⁹(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, while the Amorites call it Senir),^{* 10}all the towns of the tableland, the whole of Gilead, and all of Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, towns of Og’s kingdom in Bashan. ¹¹(Now only King Og of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. In fact, his bed, an iron bed, can still be seen in Rabbah of the Ammonites. By the common cubit it is nine cubits long and four cubits wide.)^{* 12}As for the land that we took possession of at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites the territory north of Aroer^f that is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, as well as half the hill country of Gilead with its towns,^{* 13}and I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh the rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, Og’s kingdom. (The whole region of Argob: all that portion of Bashan used to be called a land of Rephaim; ¹⁴Jair the Manassite acquired the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and he named them—that is, Bashan—after himself, Havvoth-jair,^g as it is to this day.)^{* 15}To Machir I gave Gilead.^{* 16}And to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the Wadi Arnon, with the middle of the wadi as a boundary, and up to the Jabbok, the wadi being boundary of the Ammonites;