Chapter 3 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
Edreai.
And the Lord said unto me, Fear him not, for I will deliver him and all his people
and his land into thy hand, and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sion king
of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
So the Lord our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan,
and all his people.
And we smote him until none was left to him remaining.
And we took all his cities at that time.
There was not a city which we took not from them.
Three score cities, all the region of Argon, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates and bars, beside unwalled
towns a great many.
And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sion king of Heshbon,
utterly destroying the men, women and children of every city.
But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took for a prey to ourselves.
And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites,
the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon, unto Mount
Hermon, which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Shinar.
All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salka and
Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants.
Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron.
Is it not in Rabbath of the children of Amon?
Nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it,
after the cubit of a man.
And this land, which we possessed at that time from a rower, which is by the river
Arnon, and half Mount Gilead, and the cities thereof gave I unto the Reubenites,
and to the Gadites.
And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the
half-tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argab, with all Bashan, which was called
the land of giants.
Jair, the son of Manasseh, took all the country of Argab unto the coasts of
Geshurai, and Maakathai, and called them after his own name, Bashan haveth Jair
unto this day.
And I gave Gilead unto Macir, and unto the Reubenites, and unto the Gadites.
I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon, half the valley, and the border
even unto the river Jabuk, which is the border of the children of Amon.
The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Kinnereth, even unto the sea
of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdod Pisgah, eastward.
And I commanded you at that time, saying, The Lord your God hath given you
this land to possess it.
Ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel,
all that are meat for the war.
But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, for I know that ye have
much cattle, shall abide in your cities which I have given you, until the Lord
hath given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you.
And until they also possess the land which the Lord your God hath given them beyond
Jordan, and then shall ye return every man unto his possession which I have given
you.
And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the
Lord your God hath done unto these two kings.
So shall the Lord do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.
Ye shall not fear them, for the Lord your God, He shall fight for you.
And I besought the Lord at that time, saying, O Lord God, thou hast begun to
show thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand.
For what God is there in heaven, or in earth, that can do according to thy
works, and according to thy might?
I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan,
that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
But the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me.
And the Lord said unto me, Let it suffice thee, speak no more unto me of this
matter.
Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward,
and northward, and southward, and eastward.
And behold it with thine eyes, for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
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.
So we abode in the valley over against Beth Peor.
This concludes Disc Number 10.