Deuteronomy 3:1-11

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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])