Deuteronomy 3:1-8

Conquests Recounted

1 "¹Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og, king of Bashan, with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.

2 "But the LORD said to me, 'Do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand; and you shall do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.'

3 "So the LORD our God delivered Og also, king of Bashan, with all his people into our hand, and we smote them until no survivor was left.

4 "We captured all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of ²Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

5 "All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates and bars, besides * a great many unwalled towns.

6 "We utterly destroyed them, as we did to ³Sihon king of Heshbon, ⁴utterly destroying the men, women and children of every city.

7 "⁵But all the animals and the spoil of the cities we took as our booty.

8 "⁶Thus 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

Deuteronomy 3:1-8 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.

Cross References

• 1. Numbers 21:33-35
• 2. Deuteronomy 3:13, 14; 1 Kings 4:13
• 3. Deuteronomy 1:4
• 4. Deuteronomy 2:34
• 5. Deuteronomy 2:35
• 6. Numbers 32:33; Joshua 12:1-7; Joshua 13:8-12

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "he and"
• [b] Lit "him"
• [c] Lit "left to him"
• [d] Or "rural"
• [e] Or "put them under the ban"
• [f] Or "putting under the ban"
• [g] Lit "every city of men..."
• [h] Or "wadi"