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Deuteronomy 3:6-16

Listen to Deuteronomy 3:6-16
6 "We utterly destroyed them, as we did to 1Sihon king of Heshbon, 2utterly destroying the men, women and children of every city.
7 "3But all the animals and the spoil of the cities we took as our booty.
8 "4Thus we took the land at that time from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of Arnon to Mount Hermon
9 (Sidonians 5call Hermon 6Sirion, and the Amorites call it 7Senir ):
10 all the cities of the plateau and all Gilead and 8all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
11 (For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the 9Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was an iron bedstead; it is in 10Rabbah of the sons of Ammon. Its length was nine cubits and its width four cubits by ordinary cubit.)
12 "So we took possession of this land at that time. From 11Aroer, which is by the valley of Arnon, and half the hill country of 12Gilead and its cities I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
13 "The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe * of Manasseh, all the region of Argob (concerning all Bashan, it is called the land of Rephaim.
14 13Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called it, that is, Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.)
15 "14To Machir I gave Gilead.
16 "To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even as far as the valley of Arnon, the middle of the valley as a border and as far as the river 15Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon;

Deuteronomy 3:6-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 3

In this chapter the account is carried on of the conquest of the Amorites by Israel, of Og king of Bashan, and his kingdom, De 3:1-11, and of the distribution of their country to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh, De 1:12-17 and then the command to the said tribes is observed, to go out armed before their brethren, and assist them in the conquest of the land of Canaan, and then return to their possessions, De 3:18-20 and also that to Joshua not to fear, but to do to the Canaanitish kings and kingdoms what he had seen done to the two kings of the Amorites, De 3:21,22. After which Moses relates the request he made, to go over Jordan and see the good land, which was denied him, only he is bidden to look from the top of an hill to see it, De 3:23-27. And the chapter is closed with the charge he was to give Joshua, De 3:28 which was received in the valley where they abode, De 3:29.

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Cross References 15

  • 1. Deuteronomy 1:4
  • 2. Deuteronomy 2:34
  • 3. Deuteronomy 2:35
  • 4. Numbers 32:33; Joshua 12:1-7; Joshua 13:8-12
  • 5. Deuteronomy 4:48; Joshua 11:17; Psalms 42:6; Psalms 133:3
  • 6. Psalms 29:6
  • 7. 1 Chronicles 5:23
  • 8. Joshua 13:11
  • 9. Genesis 14:5; Deuteronomy 2:11, 20
  • 10. 2 Samuel 11:1; 2 Samuel 12:26; Jeremiah 49:2
  • 11. Deuteronomy 2:36
  • 12. Numbers 32:32-38; Joshua 13:8-13
  • 13. Numbers 32:41; 1 Chronicles 2:22
  • 14. Numbers 32:39, 40
  • 15. Numbers 21:24; Deuteronomy 2:37

Footnotes 14

  • [a] Or "put them under the ban"
  • [b] Or "putting under the ban"
  • [c] Lit "every city of men..."
  • [d] Or "wadi"
  • [e] Or "couch"
  • [f] Or "couch"
  • [g] Lit "by a man's forearm"
  • [h] Or "wadi"
  • [i] Lit "them"
  • [j] I.e. the towns of Jair
  • [k] Or "wadi"
  • [l] Or "wadi"
  • [m] Lit "and"
  • [n] Or "wadi"
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. www.Lockman.org

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