Deuteronomy 3:5

5 All these were fortress towns with high walls, double gates, and bars, besides a great many villages.

Deuteronomy 3:5 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 3:5

All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars,
&c.] That is, all the cities in the kingdom of Bashan; and though they were, it hindered not their falling into the hands of the Israelites; and this might serve to encourage them against those fears they were possessed of by the spies, with respect to the cities in the land of Canaan; see ( Numbers 13:28 ) ( Deuteronomy 1:28 )

besides unwalled towns a great many;
small towns and villages adjacent to the several cities, as is common.

Deuteronomy 3:5 In-Context

3 So the Lord our God also handed over to us King Og of Bashan and all his people. We struck him down until not a single survivor was left.

4 At that time we captured all his towns; there was no citadel that we did not take from them—sixty towns, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

5 All these were fortress towns with high walls, double gates, and bars, besides a great many villages.

6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon, in each city utterly destroying men, women, and children.

7 But all the livestock and the plunder of the towns we kept as spoil for ourselves.