“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. 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.’ 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. 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. All these were
cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very
many unwalled villages. And we devoted them to destruction, as we
did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every
city, men, women, and children. But all the livestock and the spoil
of the cities we took as our plunder. 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
(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, while the Amorites call it
Senir), 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. (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 was its length, and four cubits its
breadth, according to the common cubit.)
“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. 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. 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.) To Machir I gave Gilead, 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; 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.
“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. 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,
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.’ 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.
You shall not fear them, for it is the LORD your God who fights for
you.’
“And I pleaded with the LORD at that time, saying, ‘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? Please let me go over and see
the good land beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and
Lebanon.’ 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. 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. 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.’ So we remained
in the valley opposite Beth-peor.
