Deuteronomy 3:5

5 All these cities were fortress cities with high walls and barred gates. There were also numerous unwalled 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 God, our God, also handed Og king of Bashan over to us - Og and all his people - and we utterly crushed them. Again, no survivors.

4 At the same time we took all his cities. There wasn't one of the sixty cities that we didn't take - the whole region of Argob, Og's kingdom in Bashan.

5 All these cities were fortress cities with high walls and barred gates. There were also numerous unwalled villages.

6 We totally destroyed them - a holy destruction. It was the same treatment we gave to Sihon king of Heshbon, a holy destruction of every city, man, woman, and child.

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