Deuteronomy 3:6-16

6 And [so] we destroyed them just as we had done to Sihon the king of Heshbon; [we destroyed] utterly each town of males, the women, and the little children.

7 But all [of] the livestock and the booty of the towns we kept as spoil for ourselves.

8 "And so we took at that time the land from {the control of} [the] two kings of the Amorites who [were] {on the other side of the Jordan}, from the wadi of Arnon up to {Mount Hermon}.

9 (The Sidonians called Hermon 'Sirion,' and the Amorites called it 'Senir.')

10 All of the towns of the plateau and the whole of Gilead and all of Bashan up to Salecah and Edrei, the towns of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

11 (For only Og, king of Bashan, was left from the remnant of the Rephaim. Indeed, his bedstead--it [was] a bedstead of iron. It is in Rabbah of the {Ammonites}. Nine cubits [is] its length, and four cubits [is] its width according to the cubit of a man.)

12 And [so] we took possession of this land at that time, from Aroer, which [is] on the [edge of the] wadi of Arnon, and [also] half of the hill country of Gilead and its towns I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.

13 And the remainder of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the whole region of Argo. All of that [area of] Bashan was called [the] land of the Rephaim.

14 Jair the descendant of Manasseh acquired the whole region of Argob, up to the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and he called it, [that is] Bashan, after his [own] name, Havvoth Jair, {as it still is today}.

15 And [also] I gave Gilead to Makir.

16 And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave, from Gilead up to the wadi of Arnon, the middle of the wadi [as a] boundary and up to the Jabbok {River}, the boundary of the {Ammonites}.

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.

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew "us"
• [b]. Literally "the hand of"
• [c]. Hebrew "Amorite"
• [d]. Literally "in the beyond of the Jordan"
• [e]. A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season
• [f]. Literally "the mountain of Hermon"
• [g]. Literally "sons/children of Ammon"
• [h]. A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season
• [i]. Hebrew "Reubenite"
• [j]. Hebrew "Gadite"
• [k]. Or "son"
• [l]. Hebrew "them"
• [m]. Literally "up to this day"
• [n]. Hebrew "Reubenite"
• [o]. Hebrew "Gadite"
• [p]. A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season
• [q]. A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season
• [r]. Literally "wadi," which here refers to a flowing river
• [s]. Literally "sons/children of Ammon"