Deuteronomy 3:4
New English Translation
4 We captured all his cities at that time—there was not a town we did not take from them—sixty cities, all the region of Argob,[a] the dominion of Og in Bashan.
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- Deuteronomy 3:4 sn Argob. This is a subdistrict of Bashan, perhaps north of the Yarmuk River. See Y. Aharoni, Land of the Bible, 314.
Deuteronomy 3:13
New English Translation
13 The rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh.[a] (All the region of Argob,[b] that is, all Bashan, is called the land of Rephaim.
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- Deuteronomy 3:13 sn Half the tribe of Manasseh. The tribe of Manasseh split into clans, with half opting to settle in Bashan and the other half in Canaan (cf. Num 32:39-42; Josh 17:1-13).
- Deuteronomy 3:13 sn Argob. See note on this term in v. 4.
Deuteronomy 3:14
New English Translation
14 Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the Argob region as far as the border with the Geshurites[a] and Maacathites[b]—namely Bashan—and called it by his name, Havvoth Jair,[c] which it retains to this very day.)
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- Deuteronomy 3:14 sn Geshurites. Geshur was a city and its surrounding area somewhere northeast of Bashan (cf. Josh 12:5 ; 13:11, 13). One of David’s wives was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur and mother of Absalom (cf. 2 Sam 13:37; 15:8; 1 Chr 3:2).
- Deuteronomy 3:14 sn Maacathites. These were the people of a territory southwest of Mount Hermon on the Jordan River. The name probably has nothing to do with David’s wife from Geshur (see note on “Geshurites” earlier in this verse).
- Deuteronomy 3:14 sn Havvoth Jair. The Hebrew name means “villages of Jair,” the latter being named after a son (i.e., descendant) of Manasseh who took the area by conquest.
1 Kings 4:13
New English Translation
13 Ben Geber was in charge of Ramoth Gilead; he controlled the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan, including sixty large walled cities with bronze bars locking their gates.
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