[1] "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 Ed're-i.
[2] 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 dwelt at Heshbon.' [3] So the LORD
our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people;
and we smote him until no survivor was left to him. [4] And we took all his
cities at that time--there was not a city which we did not take from
them--sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
[5] All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars,
besides very many unwalled villages. [6] And we utterly destroyed them, as
we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, destroying every city, men, women, and
children. [7] But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took as our
booty. [8] 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 [9] (the Sido'nians call Hermon Si'rion, while the
Amorites call it Senir), [10] all the cities of the tableland and all
Gilead and all Bashan, as far as Sal'ecah and Ed're-i, cities of the
kingdom of Og in Bashan. [11] (For only Og the king of Bashan was left of
the remnant of the Reph'aim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead 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.) [12] "When we took
possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the
Gadites the territory beginning at Aro'er, which is on the edge of the
valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities;
[13] 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 Manas'seh. (The whole of
that Bashan is called the land of Reph'aim. [14] Ja'ir the Manas'site took
all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of the
Gesh'urites and the Ma-ac'athites, and called the villages after his own
name, Hav'voth-ja'ir, as it is to this day.) [15] To Machir I gave Gilead,
[16] 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
boundary, as far over as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites;
[17] the Arabah also, with the Jordan as the boundary, from Chin'nereth as
far as the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on
the east. [18] "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 pass
over armed before your brethren the people of Israel. [19] But your wives,
your little ones, and your cattle (I know that you have many cattle) shall
remain in the cities which I have given you, [20] until the LORD gives rest
to your brethren, as to you, and they also occupy the land which the LORD
your God gives them beyond the Jordan; then you shall return every man to
his possession which I have given you.' [21] 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 going
over. [22] You shall not fear them; for it is the LORD your God who fights
for you.' [23] "And I besought the LORD at that time, saying, [24] `O Lord
GOD, thou hast only begun to show thy servant thy greatness and thy mighty
hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and
mighty acts as thine? [25] Let me go over, I pray, and see the good land
beyond the Jordan, that goodly hill country, and Lebanon.' [26] But the
LORD was angry with me on your account, and would not hearken to me; and
the LORD said to me, `Let it suffice you; 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 behold it with your eyes; for you
shall not go over this Jordan. [28] 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 which you shall see.' [29] So we
remained in the valley opposite Beth-pe'or.
