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Deuteronomy 3 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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The Defeat of King Og

(Num 21:33–35 )
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:1 - “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, to battle at Edrei.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:2 - 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 Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:3 - So the LORD our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people, and we struck him down until he had no survivor left.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:4 - And we took all his cities at that time—there was not a city that we did not take from them—sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:5 - All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:6 - And we devoted them to destruction,[fn] as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every city, men, women, and children.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:7 - But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as our plunder.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:8 - 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
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:9 - (the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, while the Amorites call it Senir),
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:10 - all the cities of the tableland and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:11 - (For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits[fn] was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.[fn])
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:12 - “When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning at Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:13 - The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, that is, all the region of Argob, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (All that portion of Bashan is called the land of Rephaim.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:14 - Jair the Manassite took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called the villages after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.)
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:15 - To Machir I gave Gilead,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:16 - and to the Reubenites 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, the border of the Ammonites;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:17 - the Arabah also, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:18 - “And I commanded you at that time, saying, ‘The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. All your men of valor shall cross over armed before your brothers, the people of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:19 - Only your wives, your little ones, and your livestock (I know that you have much livestock) shall remain in the cities that I have given you,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:20 - 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.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:21 - And I commanded 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:22 - You shall not fear them, for it is the LORD your God who fights for you.’

Moses Forbidden to Enter the Land

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:23 - “And I pleaded with the LORD at that time, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:24 - ‘O Lord GOD, you have only begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:25 - Please let me go over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and Lebanon.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:26 - But the LORD was angry with me because of you and would not listen to me. And the LORD said to me, ‘Enough from you; do not speak to me of this matter again.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:27 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:28 - But 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.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:29 - So we remained in the valley opposite Beth-peor.
ESV Footnotes
That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); twice in this verse
A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
Hebrew cubit of a man
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