| 1 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of
Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, unto battle at Edrei.
2 And Jehovah said unto me, Fear him not; for I have delivered him, and
all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as
thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon. 3 So
Jehovah our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all
his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining. 4 And
we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not
from them; threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in
Bashan. 5 All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and
bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many. 6 And we utterly destroyed
them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every
inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. 7 But all the cattle,
and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey unto ourselves. 8 And we
took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites
that were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon unto mount Hermon;
9 (which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call
it Senir;) 10 all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan,
unto 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; is it not in Rabbah of the children of
Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it,
after the cubit of a man.)
12 And 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, and the
cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites: 13 and the
rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I unto 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, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called
them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth-jair, unto this day.)
15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir. 16 And unto the Reubenites and unto
the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the valley of the Arnon, the middle
of the valley, and the border thereof, even unto the river Jabbok,
which is the border of the children of Ammon; 17 the Arabah also, and the
Jordan and the border thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of
the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
18 And I commanded you at that time, saying, Jehovah your God hath given
you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren
the children of Israel, all the men of valor. 19 But your wives, and your
little ones, and your cattle, (I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide
in your cities which I have given you, 20 until Jehovah give rest unto
your brethren, as unto you, and they also possess the land which Jehovah your
God giveth them beyond the Jordan: then shall ye return every man unto his
possession, which I have given you. 21 And I commanded Joshua at that
time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that Jehovah your God hath done unto
these two kings: so shall Jehovah do unto all the kingdoms whither thou goest
over. 22 Ye shall not fear them; for Jehovah your God, he it is that
fighteth for you.
23 And I besought Jehovah at that time, saying, 24 O Lord Jehovah, thou
hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness, and thy strong hand: for what
god is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and
according to thy mighty acts? 25 Let me go over, I pray thee, and see the
good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
26 But Jehovah was wroth with me for your sakes, and hearkened not unto
me; and Jehovah said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of
this matter. 27 Get thee up unto the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes
westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold with thine
eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan. 28 But charge 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 thou shalt see. 29 So we
abode in the valley over against Beth-peor.
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