Deuteronomy 2:24-3:11

New King James Version

²⁴ “ ‘Rise, take your journey, and ^(A)cross over the River Arnon. Look, I have given into your hand ^(B)Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin ^[a]to possess it, and engage him in battle. ^25 (C)This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the nations ^[b]under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you, and shall ^(D)tremble and be in anguish because of you.’

King Sihon Defeated^(E)

²⁶ “And I ^(F)sent messengers from the Wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon, ^(G)with words of peace, saying, ^27 (H)‘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. ²⁸ You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink; ^(I)only let me pass through on foot, ^29 (J)just 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.’

^30 (K)“But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for ^(L)the Lord your God ^(M)hardened 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 ^(N)give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to possess it, that you may inherit his land.’ ^32 (O)Then Sihon and all his people came out against us to fight at Jahaz. ³³ And ^(P)the Lord our God delivered him ^[c]over to us; so ^(Q)we defeated him, his sons, and all his people. ³⁴ We took all his cities at that time, and we ^(R)utterly destroyed the men, women, and little ones of every city; we left none remaining. ³⁵ We took only the livestock as plunder for ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we took. ^36 (S)From Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, and from ^(T)the city that is in the ravine, as far as Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us; ^(U)the Lord our God delivered all to us. ³⁷ Only you did not go near the land of the people of Ammon—anywhere along the River ^(V)Jabbok, or to the cities of the mountains, or ^(W)wherever the Lord our God had forbidden us.

King Og Defeated^(X)

3 “Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan; and ^(Y)Og king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle ^(Z)at Edrei. ² And 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 ^(AA)Sihon 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 ^[d]attacked him until he had no survivors remaining. ⁴ And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, ^(AB)all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ⁵ All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many rural towns. ⁶ And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king ^(AC)of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city. ⁷ But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as booty for ourselves.

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

^11 (AI)“For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of ^(AJ)the ^[e]giants. Indeed his bedstead was an iron bedstead. (Is it not in ^(AK)Rabbah of the people of Ammon?) Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit.