Deuteronomy 2:24–3:11

²⁴‘Rise ye, journey and pass over the brook Arnon; see, I have given into thy hand Sihon king of Heshbon, the Amorite, and his land; begin to possess, and stir up thyself against him in battle. ²⁵This day I begin to put thy dread and thy fear on the face of the peoples under the whole heavens, who hear thy fame, and have trembled and been pained because of thee.

²⁶‘And I send messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth, unto Sihon king of Heshbon,—words of peace—saying, ²⁷Let me pass over through thy land; in the several ways I go; I turn not aside—right or left— ²⁸food for money thou dost sell me, and I have eaten; and water for money thou dost give to me, and I have drunk; only, let me pass over on my feet,— ²⁹as the sons of Esau who are dwelling in Seir, and the Moabites who are dwelling in Ar, have done to me—till that I pass over the Jordan, unto the land which Jehovah our God is giving to us.

³⁰‘And Sihon king of Heshbon hath not been willing to let us pass over by him, for Jehovah thy God hath hardened his spirit, and strengthened his heart, so as to give him into thy hand as at this day.

³¹‘And Jehovah saith unto me, See, I have begun to give before thee Sihon and his land; begin to possess—to possess his land.

³²‘And Sihon cometh out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle to Jahaz; ³³and Jehovah our God giveth him before us, and we smite him, and his sons, and all his people; ³⁴and we capture all his cities at that time, and devote the whole city, men, and the women, and the infants—we have not left a remnant; ³⁵only, the cattle we have spoiled for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we have captured.

³⁶‘From Aroer, which is by the edge of the brook Arnon, and the city which is by the brook, even unto Gilead there hath not been a city which is too high for us; the whole hath Jehovah our God given before us.

³⁷‘Only, unto the land of the sons of Ammon thou hast not drawn near, any part of the brook Jabbok, and cities of the hill-country, and anything which Jehovah our God hath not commanded.

Chapter 3

¹‘And we turn, and go up the way to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan cometh out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle, to Edrei.

²‘And Jehovah saith unto me, Fear him not, for into thy hand I have given him, and all his people, and his land, and thou hast done to him as thou hast done to Sihon king of the Amorite who is dwelling in Heshbon.

³‘And Jehovah our God giveth into our hands also Og king of Bashan, and all his people, and we smite him till there hath not been left to him a remnant; ⁴and we capture all his cities at that time, there hath not been a city which we have not taken from them, sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ⁵All these are cities fenced with high walls, two-leaved doors and bar, apart from cities of villages very many; ⁶and we devote them, as we have done to Sihon king of Heshbon, devoting every city, men, the women, and the infants; ⁷and all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we have spoiled for ourselves.

⁸‘And we take, at that time, the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorite, which is beyond the Jordan, from the brook Arnon unto mount Hermon; ⁹(Sidonians call Hermon, Sirion; and the Amorites call it Senir,) ¹⁰all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, ¹¹for only Og king of Bashan had been left of the remnant of the Rephaim; lo, his bedstead is a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the sons of Ammon? nine cubits its length, and four cubits its breadth, by the cubit of a man.