Dual Panel1Next we turned and advanced along the road to Bashan. King Og of Bashan came out with his whole army to give battle at Edrei.
2The LORD assured me, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your hands, with all his people and his land. Deal with him as you dealt with King Sihon of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon.”
3So the LORD our God also delivered King Og of Bashan into our hands, with all his people. We slaughtered them and left him no survivor,
4and at the same time we captured all his towns; there was not one town that we did not take from them. In all we captured sixty towns, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan;
5all these were fortified towns with high walls and barred gates; in addition we took a great many open settlements.
6In every town we put to death under solemn ban all the men, women, and dependants, as we did to King Sihon of Heshbon.
7All the cattle and the spoil from the towns we carried off for ourselves.
8At that time we seized from the two Amorite kings beyond the Jordan the territory that runs from the wadi of the Arnon to Mount Hermon
9(the mountain that the Sidonians call Sirion and the Amorites Senir),
10all the towns of the tableland, and the whole of Gilead and Bashan as far as Salcah and Edrei, towns in the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
11(Only King Og of Bashan remained, as the sole survivor of the Rephaim. His sarcophagus of basalt was over thirteen feet long and six feet wide, and it may still be seen in the Ammonite town of Rabbah.)
12When at that time we occupied this territory, I assigned to the Reubenites and Gadites the land beyond Aroer on the wadi of the Arnon and half the hill-country of Gilead with its towns,
13while the rest of Gilead and the whole of Bashan the kingdom of Og, all the region of Argob, I assigned to half the tribe of Manasseh. (All Bashan used to be called the land of the Rephaim.
14Jair son of Manasseh captured all the region of Argob as far as the Geshurite and Maacathite border. There are tent-villages in Bashan still bearing his name, Havvoth-jair.)
15To Machir I assigned Gilead,
16and to the Reubenites and the Gadites I assigned land from Gilead to the wadi of the Arnon, that is to the middle of the wadi; its territory ran to the wadi of the Jabbok, the Ammonite frontier,
17and included the Arabah, with the Jordan and land adjacent, from Kinnereth to the sea of the Arabah, that is the Dead Sea, below the watershed of Pisgah on the east.
18At that time I gave you this command: “Since the LORD your God has given you this land to occupy, let all your fighting men be drafted and cross at the head of their fellow-Israelites.
19Only your wives and dependants and your livestock -- I know you have much livestock -- may remain in the towns I have given you.
20This you are to do until the LORD gives your kinsfolk security as he has given it to you, and until they too occupy the land which the LORD your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan; then you may each return to the possession I have given you.”
21Also at that time I gave Joshua this charge: “You have seen for yourself all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings; he will do the same to all the kingdoms into which you are about to cross.
22Do not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God himself will fight for you.”
23It was then I made this plea to the LORD:
24“LORD God,” I said, “you have begun to show to your servant your great power and your strong hand: what god is there in heaven or on earth who can match your works and mighty deeds?
25Let me cross over, I beg, and see that good land which lies on the other side of the Jordan, and the fine hill-country and the Lebanon.”
26But because of you the LORD angrily brushed me aside and would not listen. “Enough!” he answered. “Say no more about this.
27Go to the top of Pisgah and look west and north, south and east; look well at what you see, for you will not cross this river Jordan.
28Give Joshua his commission, support and strengthen him, for he will lead this people across, and he will put them in possession of the land you see before you.”
29So we remained in the glen opposite Beth-peor.