Deuteronomy 3:5

5 All these were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a large number of rural 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 Og king of Bashan and his whole army to us. We struck him until there was no survivor left.

4 We captured all his cities at that time. There wasn't a city that we didn't take from them: 60 cities, the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

5 All these were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a large number of rural villages.

6 We completely destroyed them, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying the men, women, and children of every city.

7 But we took all the livestock and the spoil from the cities as plunder for ourselves.