Deuteronomy 2:31-3:14

English Standard Version

³¹ And the Lord said to me, ‘Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to take possession, that you may occupy his land.’ ³² Then ^(A)Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. ³³ And ^(B)the Lord our God gave him over to us, and ^(C)we defeated him and his sons and all his people. ³⁴ And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction^[a] every ^(D)city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors. ³⁵ Only the livestock we took as spoil for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities that we captured. ^36 (E)From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from ^(F)the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. ^(G)The Lord our God gave all into our hands. ³⁷ Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river ^(H)Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, whatever the Lord our God had forbidden us.

The Defeat of King Og

3 “Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And ^(I)Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at ^(J)Edrei. ² But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand. And you shall do to him as you did to ^(K)Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.’ ³ So the Lord our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people, ^(L)and we struck him down until he had no survivor left. ⁴ And we took all his cities at that time—there was not a city that we did not take from them—sixty cities, ^(M)the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ⁵ All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages. ⁶ And ^(N)we devoted them to destruction,^[b] as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every ^(O)city, men, women, and children. ⁷ But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as our plunder. ⁸ So we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon ⁹ (the Sidonians call ^(P)Hermon ^(Q)Sirion, while the Amorites call it ^(R)Senir), ¹⁰ all the cities of the ^(S)tableland and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as ^(T)Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ¹¹ (For ^(U)only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of ^(V)the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in ^(W)Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits^[c] was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the ^(X)common cubit.^[d])

¹² “When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning ^(Y)at Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with ^(Z)its cities. ^13 (AA)The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, that is, ^(AB)all the region of Argob, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (All that portion of Bashan is called the land of ^(AC)Rephaim. ^14 (AD)Jair the Manassite took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of ^(AE)the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called the villages ^(AF)after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.)