King Og Defeated

1 Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan. Og, King of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. 2 The Lord said to me, “Do not 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 Og, King of Bashan into our hand, and all his people. We struck him until no one was left remaining to him. 4 We took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we did not take from them: 60 cities, the entire region of Argob, 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 as 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. His bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? It was thirteen and a half feet long and six feet wide.

Division of the Land

12 This is the land we took possession of 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, all Bashan, which is also 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 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 to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the Ammonites; 17 the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth 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 valor shall pass over, armed before your brothers, the Israelites. 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 is giving 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.”

Moses Forbidden to Cross the Jordan

23 I begged the Lord 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 on 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 did not 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.

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