Sihon and Og Struck Down

^21 (A)Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying, ²² “^(B)Let me pass through your land. We will not turn off into field or vineyard; we will not drink water from wells. We will go by the king’s highway until we have passed through your border.” ^23 (C)But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border. So Sihon gathered all his people and went out to meet Israel in the wilderness and came to ^(D)Jahaz and fought against Israel. ²⁴ Then ^(E)Israel ^[a]struck him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the sons of Ammon; for the ^(F)border of the sons of Ammon was ^[b]Jazer.

^33 (A)Then they turned and went up by the way of Bashan, and Og the king of Bashan went out to meet them, he and all his people for battle at ^(B)Edrei.

³⁵ So ^(A)they struck down him and his sons and all his people, until ^[a]there was no survivor remaining for him; and they possessed his land.

²⁶ “^(A)So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, ²⁷ ‘Let me pass through your land, I will ^[a]go only on the highway; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left. ²⁸ You will sell me food for money so that I may eat, and give me water for money so that I may drink; ^(B)only let me pass through on ^[b]foot, ²⁹ just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in ^(C)Ar did for me, until I cross over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God is giving to us.’ ³⁰ But ^(D)Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass ^[c]through his land, for ^(E)Yahweh your God stiffened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to give him over into your hand, as he is today. ³¹ And Yahweh said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land ^[d]over to you. Begin to possess, so that you may fully possess his land.’

³² “Then Sihon ^[e]with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz. ^33 (F)But Yahweh our God gave him ^[f]over to us, and we ^(G)struck him down with his sons and all his people. ³⁴ So we captured all his cities at that time and ^[g](H)devoted to destruction ^[h]the men, women, and little ones of every city. We left no survivor remaining. ³⁵ We took ^(I)only the animals as our plunder and the spoil of the cities which we had captured. ³⁶ From ^(J)Aroer which is on the edge of the ^[i]valley of Arnon and from the city which is in the ^[j]valley, even to Gilead, there was not a town that was too high for us; Yahweh our God gave all ^[k]over to us. ^37 (K)Only you did not go near to the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the ^[l]river ^(L)Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God had commanded us.

Israel Takes Possession of the Land

3 “^(M)Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan, ^[m]with all his people, came out to meet us in battle at Edrei. ² But Yahweh said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land over into your hand; and you shall do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.’ ³ So Yahweh our God also gave Og, king of Bashan, with all his people over into our hand, and we struck ^[n]them until ^[o]there was no survivor remaining for him. ⁴ And we captured all his cities at that time; there was not a town which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of ^(N)Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ⁵ All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates and bars, besides a great many ^[p]unwalled towns. ⁶ And we ^[q]devoted them to destruction, as we did to ^(O)Sihon king of Heshbon, ^[r](P)devoting to destruction ^[s]the men, women, and little ones of every city. ^7 (Q)But all the animals and the spoil of the cities we took as our plunder.

⁸ “^(R)Thus we took the land at that time from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the ^[t]valley of Arnon to Mount Hermon ⁹ (Sidonians ^(S)call Hermon ^(T)Sirion, and the Amorites call it ^(U)Senir): ¹⁰ all the cities of the plateau and all Gilead and ^(V)all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ¹¹ (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the ^(W)Rephaim. Behold, his ^[u]bedstead was an iron ^[v]bedstead; it is in ^(X)Rabbah of the sons of Ammon. Its length was ^[w]nine cubits, and its width four cubits ^[x]by ordinary cubit.)

¹² “So we took possession of this land at that time. From ^(Y)Aroer, which is by the ^[y]valley of Arnon, and half the hill country of ^(Z)Gilead and its cities I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites. ¹³ And the rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob. (Concerning all Bashan, it is called the land of Rephaim. ^14 (AA)Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites and called ^[z]it—that is, Bashan—after his own name, ^[aa]Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.) ^15 (AB)And to Machir I gave Gilead. ¹⁶ And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even as far as the ^[ab]valley of Arnon, the middle of the ^[ac]valley ^[ad]as a border and as far as the ^[ae]river ^(AC)Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon; ¹⁷ the Arabah also, with the Jordan ^[af]as a border, from ^[ag](AD)Chinnereth ^(AE)even as far as the sea of the Arabah, ^(AF)the Salt Sea, ^[ah]at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah on the east.