Deuteronomy 3

Then we turned north and went toward the region of Bashan. Og, the king of that area, and all his soldiers marched south to fight against us at the city of Edrei.

God said to me, ‘Do not be afraid of him, because I will cause your army to defeat him and all his army. I will also cause you to capture all their land. Do to him what you did to Sihon, the king of the Amorite people, who ruled in the city of Heshbon.’ \*

So God our God caused us to defeat King Og and his soldiers. We killed them all. We did not allow any of them to remain alive.

There were 60 cities in that region of Argob, in King Og’s kingdom of Bashan, but we captured all of them. \*

All those cities had high walls around them with gates and bars. We also captured many villages that did not have walls around them.

We completely destroyed those cities, just as we had done in the area that King Sihon ruled. We killed all the men, women, and children.

But from those cities we took for ourselves all the livestock and valuable things. \*

So at that time we took all the land from those two kings of the Amorite people. We took the land east of the Jordan River, from the Arnon River in the south to Mount Hermon in the north.”

(The people of Sidon city call that mountain Sirion. The Amorite people call it Senir.)

“We captured all the towns on the plateau and all the region of Gilead. We also captured all of Bashan as far east as the cities of Salekah and Edrei, which also belonged to Og’s kingdom.” \*

(Og was the last king who was a descendant of the Raphaite people. His bed was iron. It was four meters long and two meters wide, according to the standard measurement. It was in the city of Rabbah in the region of the Ammonites.) \*

“From the land that we captured at that time, I allotted to the tribes of Reuben and Gad the land north of the city of Aroer near the Arnon River. I also allotted to them some of the hilly areas of Gilead, along with the nearby cities.

The other part of Gilead and all of Bashan, which was the region of Argob that King Og had ruled, I allotted to half of the tribe of Manasseh.” (People call the entire region of Bashan the land of the Raphaites. \*

Jair, a man from the tribe of Manasseh, conquered all of Bashan as far north as the border of the Geshur and Maacath territories. He gave his own name to the villages there. {People still call them} the villages of Jair.) \*

“The northern part of the Gilead region I allotted to the Machir clan, {who are descendants of the tribe of Manasseh}.

I allotted to the tribes of Reuben and Gad the southern part of Gilead, extending south to the Arnon River. The middle of the river is the southern boundary. The northern boundary is the Jabbok River, which is part of the border of the region where the Ammonites live. \*

The border extends from the plain along the east side of the Jordan valley, from the Chinnereth Sea in the north to the Sea of the Arabah” (people also call it the Salt Sea) “in the south and to the slopes of Mount Pisgah on the east. \*

At that time, I told you three tribes, ‘God our God is giving you this land east of the Jordan River. So now, your soldiers must cross the Jordan River ahead of the men from the other Israelite tribes. {Help them to conquer the land}. \*

But your wives and children and your very numerous cattle must stay in the towns that I have allotted to you.

{Your men must help} your fellow Israelites until God enables them to live there peacefully. Help them until they also capture all of the land that God our God is giving to them, which is on the west side of the Jordan River, just as he did for you {here on the east side of the river}. After that, you all may return to this land that I have allotted to you.’ \*

And I told Joshua, ‘You have seen everything that God our God did to those two kings, Sihon and Og. He will do the same thing to the people who are now in the land that you will be entering.

Do not be afraid of those people, because God our God is the one who will fight on your behalf.’ \*

At that time, I earnestly prayed,

‘God my Lord, you are the one who has {merely} begun to show me how very great you are and that you can do powerful things. There is certainly no god in heaven or on earth who can do the powerful things that you have done.

So please allow me to cross the Jordan River. Let me see the good land on the west side, the good hilly area, and the mountains in Lebanon.’ \*

But God was angry with me because of what your parents had done. He would not pay attention to me. Instead, he said, ‘That is enough {talk} from you! Do not talk to me about that again!

Climb up to the top of Mount Pisgah. Then look toward the west, east, north, and south. Look at it all carefully because you will not cross the Jordan River {to see the land from there}. \*

But tell Joshua what he must do. Encourage him because he is the one who will lead the people across the river. He is the one who will lead them to occupy the land that you will see {from the top of the mountain}.’

So we remained in the {Jordan River} valley close to the town of Beth Peor. \*