1Then we turned and went up by the way to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan came out to meet us, he and all his people, for battle at Edrei.
2And Yahweh said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for into your hand I have given him and all his people and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.’
3So Yahweh our God gave into our hand Og king of Bashan also, and all his people; and we struck him down until there was left to him no survivor.
4And we captured all his cities at that time; there was not a town that we did not take from them—sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
5All these were cities fortified with a high wall, gates, and a bar—besides the unwalled towns, a very great many.
6And we devoted them to destruction, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every city—the men, the women, and the little ones.
7But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we plundered for ourselves.
8So we took at that time the land from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon
9(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir),
10all the cities of the tableland, and all of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
11For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length and four cubits its width, by the common cubit.
12And this land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the Wadi Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites.
13And the rest of Gilead, and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh—all the region of Argob, all that Bashan, which is called the land of the Rephaim.
14Jair son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and he called them, that is, Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth-jair, to this day.
15And to Machir I gave Gilead.
16And to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the Wadi Arnon, the middle of the wadi as a border, and as far as the Jabbok, the wadi that is the border of the sons of Ammon;
17and the Arabah, with the Jordan as a border, from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.
18And I commanded you at that time, saying, ‘Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it; armed for battle you shall cross over ahead of your brothers, the sons of Israel, all the warriors.
19Only your wives, your little ones, and your livestock—I know that you have much livestock—shall remain in your cities that I have given you,
20until Yahweh gives rest to your brothers as to you, and they too possess the land that Yahweh your God is giving them beyond the Jordan; then you shall return, each man to his possession that I have given you.’
21And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, ‘Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings; so will Yahweh do to all the kingdoms into which you are crossing over.
22Do not fear them, for Yahweh your God, he is the one fighting for you.’
23And I pleaded for grace with Yahweh at that time, saying,
24‘Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness and your strong hand; for what god is there in the heavens or on the earth who can do according to your deeds and according to your mighty acts?
25Let me cross over, please, and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, this good hill country, and the Lebanon.’
26But Yahweh was furious with me on your account and would not listen to me; and Yahweh said to me, ‘Enough for you! Do not speak to me again about this matter.
27Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and look with your eyes; for you shall not cross over this Jordan.
28But command Joshua, and strengthen him and make him resolute, for he shall cross over ahead of this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land that you will see.’
29So we stayed in the valley opposite Beth-peor.
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