Chapter 3
1 Then we turned , and went up the way to Bashan . Og the king of Bashan came out against us , he and all his people , to battle at Edrei.
2 The LORD said to me , "Don’t fear him ; for I have delivered him , with all his people and his land, into your hand . You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon ."
3 So the LORD our God also delivered into our hand Og , the king of Bashan , and all his people . We struck him until no one was left to him remaining .
4 We took all his cities at that time . There was not a city which we didn’t take from them : sixty cities , all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan .
5 All these were cities fortified with high walls , gates , and bars , in addition to a great many villages without walls .
6 We utterly destroyed them , as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon , utterly destroying every inhabited city , with the women and the little ones .
7 But all the livestock, and the plunder of the cities , we took for plunder for ourselves.
8 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 Hermon Sirion , and the Amorites call it Senir .)
10 We took all the cities of the plain , and all Gilead , and all Bashan , to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan .
11 ( For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim . Behold , his bedstead was a bedstead of iron . Isn’t it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon ? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its width , after the cubit of a man .)
12 This land we took in possession at that time : from Aroer , which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with 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, even all Bashan . ( The same is called the land of Rephaim .
14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites , and called them , even Bashan , after his own name , Havvoth Jair , to this day .)
15 I gave Gilead to Machir .
16 To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley , and its border , even to the river Jabbok , which is the border of the children of Ammon ;
17 the Arabah also , and the Jordan and its border , from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah , the Salt Sea , under the slopes of Pisgah eastward .
18 I commanded you at that time , saying, " The LORD your God has given you this land to possess it . All of you men of valour shall pass over armed before your brothers , the children of Israel .
19 But your wives, and your little ones , and your livestock , ( I know that you have much livestock ), shall live in your cities which I have given you ,
20 until the LORD gives rest to your brothers, as to you , and they also possess the land which the LORD your God gives them beyond the Jordan . Then you shall each return to his own possession , which I have given you ."
21 I commanded Joshua at that time , saying, " Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings . So shall the LORD do to all the kingdoms where you go over .
22 You shall not fear them ; for the LORD your God himself fights for you ."
23 I begged GOD at that time , saying,
24 " Lord GOD , you have begun to show your servant your greatness , and your strong hand . For what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do works like yours , and mighty acts like yours ?
25 Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan , that fine mountain , and Lebanon ."
26 But the LORD was angry with me because of you , and didn’t listen to me . The LORD said to me , " That is enough ! Speak no more to me of this matter .
27 Go up to the top of Pisgah , and lift up your eyes westward , and northward , and southward , and eastward , and see with your eyes ; for you shall not go over this Jordan .
28 But commission Joshua , and encourage him , and strengthen him ; for he shall go over before this people , and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see ."
29 So we stayed in the valley near Beth Peor.