Deuteronomy 3

Victory Over Og and His Cities Deuteronomy 3:3–6

³Verse 3. So Yahweh our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people. We struck him until no one was left to him remaining. ⁴Verse 4. We took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we didn’t take from them; sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ⁵Verse 5. All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides a great many villages without walls. ⁶Verse 6. We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.

Division of the Conquered Land Deuteronomy 3:7–11

⁷Verse 7. But all the livestock, and the plunder of the cities, we took for plunder for ourselves. ⁸Verse 8. 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. ⁹Verse 9. (The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.) ¹⁰Verse 10. We took all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ¹¹Verse 11. (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its width, after the cubit of a man.)

Specific Land Allocations Deuteronomy 3:12–17

¹²Verse 12. This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead, and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites: ¹³Verse 13. and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim. ¹⁴Verse 14. Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.)

¹⁵Verse 15. I gave Gilead to Machir. ¹⁶Verse 16. To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; ¹⁷Verse 17. the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

Encouragement for the Tribes Deuteronomy 3:18–22

¹⁸Verse 18. I commanded you at that time, saying, “Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it. You shall pass over armed before your brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor. ¹⁹Verse 19. But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall live in your cities which I have given you, ²⁰Verse 20. until Yahweh gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then you shall each return to his own possession, which I have given you.”

²¹Verse 21. I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, “Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings. So shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you go over. ²²Verse 22. You shall not fear them; for Yahweh your God himself fights for you.”

Moses' Request and God's Response Deuteronomy 3:23–28

²³Verse 23. I begged Yahweh at that time, saying, ²⁴Verse 24. “Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do works like yours, and mighty acts like yours? ²⁵Verse 25. Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that fine mountain, and Lebanon.” ²⁶Verse 26. But Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and didn’t listen to me. Yahweh said to me, “Let this satisfy you. Speak no more to me of this matter. ²⁷Verse 27. Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan.

²⁸Verse 28. But commission 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 you shall see.”

Staying Near Beth Peor Deuteronomy 3:29

²⁹Verse 29. So we stayed in the valley near Beth Peor.