The Defeat of King Og

3 “Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And ^(A)Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at ^(B)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 ^(C)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, ^(D)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, ^(E)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 ^(F)we devoted them to destruction,^[a] as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every ^(G)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 ^(H)Hermon ^(I)Sirion, while the Amorites call it ^(J)Senir), ¹⁰ all the cities of the ^(K)tableland and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as ^(L)Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ¹¹ (For ^(M)only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of ^(N)the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in ^(O)Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits^[b] was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the ^(P)common cubit.^[c])

¹² “When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning ^(Q)at Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with ^(R)its cities. ^13 (S)The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, that is, ^(T)all the region of Argob, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (All that portion of Bashan is called the land of ^(U)Rephaim. ^14 (V)Jair the Manassite took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of ^(W)the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called the villages ^(X)after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.) ¹⁵ To Machir ^(Y)I gave Gilead, ¹⁶ and to the Reubenites ^(Z)and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the Valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a border, as far over as the river Jabbok, ^(AA)the border of the Ammonites; ¹⁷ the Arabah also, with the Jordan as the border, from ^(AB)Chinnereth as far as ^(AC)the Sea of the Arabah, ^(AD)the Salt Sea, under ^(AE)the slopes of Pisgah on the east.

¹⁸ “And I commanded you at that time, saying, ‘The Lord your God has given you this land to possess. ^(AF)All your men of valor shall cross over armed before your brothers, the people of Israel. ¹⁹ Only your wives, your little ones, and your livestock ^(AG)(I know that you have much livestock) shall remain in the cities that I have given you, ^20 (AH)until the Lord gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also occupy the land that the Lord your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his possession which I have given you.’ ²¹ And I commanded ^(AI)Joshua at that time, ‘Your eyes have seen all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings. So will the Lord do to all the kingdoms into which you are crossing. ²² You shall not fear them, for it is ^(AJ)the Lord your God who fights for you.’

Moses Forbidden to Enter the Land

²³ “And I pleaded with the Lord at that time, saying, ²⁴ ‘O Lord God, you have only begun to show your servant ^(AK)your greatness and your mighty hand. For ^(AL)what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours? ²⁵ Please let me go over and see ^(AM)the good land beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and ^(AN)Lebanon.’ ²⁶ But ^(AO)the Lord was angry with me because of you and would not listen to me. And the Lord said to me, ^(AP)‘Enough from you; do not speak to me of this matter again. ^27 (AQ)Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and look at it with your eyes, for you shall not go over this Jordan. ²⁸ But ^(AR)charge Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he shall go over at the head of this people, and he shall put them in possession of the land that you shall see.’ ²⁹ So we remained in ^(AS)the valley opposite Beth-peor.

Moses Commands Obedience

4 “And now, O Israel, listen to ^(AT)the statutes and the rules^[d] that I am teaching you, and do them, ^(AU)that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. ^2 (AV)You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you. ³ Your eyes have seen what the Lord did ^(AW)at Baal-peor, for the Lord your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Baal of Peor. ⁴ But you who held fast to the Lord your God are all alive today. ⁵ See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. ^6 (AX)Keep them and do them, for ^(AY)that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’ ⁷ For ^(AZ)what great nation is there that has ^(BA)a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? ⁸ And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so ^(BB)righteous as all this law that I set before you today?

^9 (BC)“Only take care, and ^(BD)keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. ^(BE)Make them known to your children and your children's children— ¹⁰ how on ^(BF)the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ^(BG)‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, ^(BH)so that they may learn to fear ^(BI)me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’ ¹¹ And ^(BJ)you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while ^(BK)the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom. ¹² Then ^(BL)the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, ^(BM)but saw no form; ^(BN)there was only a voice. ^13 (BO)And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, ^(BP)the Ten Commandments,^{[e] (BQ)}and he wrote them on two tablets of stone. ¹⁴ And ^(BR)the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess.

Idolatry Forbidden

^15 (BS)“Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since ^(BT)you saw no form on the day that the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, ¹⁶ beware ^(BU)lest you act corruptly ^(BV)by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, ^(BW)the likeness of male or female, ¹⁷ the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, ¹⁸ the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth. ¹⁹ And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see ^(BX)the sun and the moon and the stars, ^(BY)all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven. ²⁰ But the Lord has taken you and ^(BZ)brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, ^(CA)to be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day. ²¹ Furthermore, ^(CB)the Lord was angry with me because of you, and he swore that I should not cross the Jordan, and that I should not enter the good land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance. ²² For I must die in this land; ^(CC)I must not go over the Jordan. But you shall go over and take possession of ^(CD)that good land. ^23 (CE)Take care, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and ^(CF)make a carved image, the form of anything that the Lord your God has forbidden you. ²⁴ For ^(CG)the Lord your God is a consuming fire, ^(CH)a jealous God.

²⁵ “When you father children and children's children, and have grown old in the land, ^(CI)if you act corruptly by making a carved image in the form of anything, and ^(CJ)by doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, so as to provoke him to anger, ²⁶ I ^(CK)call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed. ²⁷ And the Lord ^(CL)will scatter you among the peoples, ^(CM)and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you. ²⁸ And ^(CN)there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, ^(CO)that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. ^29 (CP)But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. ³⁰ When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you ^(CQ)in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice. ³¹ For the Lord your God is ^(CR)a merciful God. ^(CS)He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.

The Lord Alone Is God

³² “For ^(CT)ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of. ^33 (CU)Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live? ³⁴ Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, ^(CV)by signs, by wonders, and ^(CW)by war, ^(CX)by a mighty hand and ^(CY)an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? ³⁵ To you it was shown, ^(CZ)that you might know that the Lord is God; ^(DA)there is no other besides him. ^36 (DB)Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you. And on earth he let you see his great fire, and ^(DC)you heard his words out of the midst of the fire. ³⁷ And because ^(DD)he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them^[f] and brought you out of Egypt ^(DE)with his own presence, by his great power, ^38 (DF)driving out before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day, ³⁹ know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that ^(DG)the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; ^(DH)there is no other. ^40 (DI)Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, ^(DJ)that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

Cities of Refuge

⁴¹ Then Moses ^(DK)set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan, ⁴² that ^(DL)the manslayer might flee there, anyone who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without being at enmity with him in time past; he may flee to one of these cities and save his life: ^43 (DM)Bezer in the wilderness on the ^(DN)tableland for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

Introduction to the Law

⁴⁴ This is the law that Moses set before the people of Israel. ⁴⁵ These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the rules, which Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they came out of Egypt, ⁴⁶ beyond the Jordan ^(DO)in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, ^(DP)whom Moses and the people of Israel defeated when they came out of Egypt. ⁴⁷ And they took possession of his land and the land ^(DQ)of Og, the king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who lived to the east beyond the Jordan; ^48 (DR)from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, as far as Mount ^(DS)Sirion^[g] (that is, ^(DT)Hermon), ⁴⁹ together with all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as ^(DU)the Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

The Sadducees Ask About the Resurrection

¹⁸ And ^(A)Sadducees came to him, ^(B)who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying, ¹⁹ “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that ^(C)if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man^[a] must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. ²⁰ There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no offspring. ²¹ And the second took her, and died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise. ²² And the seven left no offspring. Last of all the woman also died. ²³ In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.”

²⁴ Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because ^(D)you know neither the Scriptures nor ^(E)the power of God? ²⁵ For when they rise from the dead, they neither ^(F)marry nor ^(G)are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. ²⁶ And as for the dead being raised, ^(H)have you not read in ^(I)the book of Moses, in ^(J)the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ^(K)‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? ²⁷ He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong.”

The Great Commandment

^28 (L)And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” ²⁹ Jesus answered, “The most important is, ^(M)‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, ^(N)the Lord is one. ³⁰ And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ ^31 (O)The second is this: ^(P)‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment ^(Q)greater than these.” ³² And the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that ^(R)he is one, and ^(S)there is no other besides him. ³³ And to love him with all the heart and with all ^(T)the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, ^(U)is much more than all ^(V)whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” ³⁴ And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” ^(W)And after that no one dared to ask him any more questions.

Whose Son Is the Christ?

^35 (X)And as ^(Y)Jesus taught in the temple, he said, “How can the scribes say that ^(Z)the Christ is the son of David? ³⁶ David himself, ^(AA)in the Holy Spirit, declared,

³⁷ David himself calls him Lord. So ^(AD)how is he his son?” And the great throng ^(AE)heard him gladly.

Beware of the Scribes

^38 (AF)And in his teaching he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and like greetings in the marketplaces ³⁹ and have the best seats in the synagogues and ^(AG)the places of honor at feasts, ^40 (AH)who devour widows' houses and ^(AI)for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”

The Widow's Offering

^41 (AJ)And he sat down opposite ^(AK)the treasury and watched the people ^(AL)putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. ⁴² And a poor widow came and put in two ^(AM)small copper coins, which make a penny.^{[b] 43} And he called his disciples to him and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, ^(AN)this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. ⁴⁴ For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her ^(AO)poverty has put in everything she had, all ^(AP)she had to live on.”

Great Is the Lord

Of David.