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Text -- Deuteronomy 3:1-24 (NET)
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Defeat of King Og of Bashan
3:1 Next we set out on the route to Bashan , but King Og of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei .
3:2 The Lord , however, said to me, “Don’t be afraid of him because I have already given him, his whole army , and his land to you. You will do to him exactly what you did to King Sihon of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon .”
3:3 So the Lord our God did indeed give over to us King Og of Bashan and his whole army and we struck them down until not a single survivor was left .
3:4 We captured all his cities at that time – there was not a town we did not take from them– sixty cities , all the region of Argob , the dominion of Og in Bashan .
3:5 All of these cities were fortified by high walls , gates , and locking bars ; in addition there were a great many open villages .
3:6 We put all of these under divine judgment just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon – every occupied city , including women and children .
3:7 But all the livestock and plunder from the cities we kept for ourselves.
3:8 So at that time we took the land of the two Amorite kings in the Transjordan from Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon
3:9 (the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion and the Amorites call it Senir ),
3:10 all the cities of the plateau , all of Gilead and Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei , cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan .
3:11 Only King Og of Bashan was left of the remaining Rephaites . (It is noteworthy that his sarcophagus was made of iron . Does it not , indeed, still remain in Rabbath of the Ammonites ? It is thirteen and a half feet long and six feet wide according to standard measure .)
Distribution of the Transjordanian Allotments
3:12 This is the land we brought under our control at that time : The territory extending from Aroer by the Wadi Arnon and half the Gilead hill country with its cities I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites .
3:13 The rest of Gilead and all of Bashan , the kingdom of Og , I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh . (All the region of Argob , that is, all Bashan , is called the land of Rephaim .
3:14 Jair , son of Manasseh , took all the Argob region as far as the border with the Geshurites and Maacathites (namely Bashan ) and called it by his name , Havvoth-Jair , which it retains to this very day .)
3:15 I gave Gilead to Machir .
3:16 To the Reubenites and Gadites I allocated the territory extending from Gilead as far as Wadi Arnon (the exact middle of the wadi was a boundary ) all the way to the Wadi Jabbok , the Ammonite border .
3:17 The Arabah and the Jordan River were also a border , from the sea of Chinnereth to the sea of the Arabah (that is, the Salt Sea ), beneath the watershed of Pisgah to the east .
Instructions to the Transjordanian Tribes
3:18 At that time I instructed you as follows: “The Lord your God has given you this land for your possession . You warriors are to cross over before your fellow Israelites equipped for battle .
3:19 But your wives , children , and livestock (of which I know you have many ) may remain in the cities I have given you.
3:20 You must fight until the Lord gives your countrymen victory as he did you and they take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan River . Then each of you may return to his own territory that I have given you.”
3:21 I also commanded Joshua at the same time , “You have seen everything the Lord your God did to these two kings ; he will do the same to all the kingdoms where you are going .
3:22 Do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God will personally fight for you.”
Denial to Moses of the Promised Land
3:23 Moreover, at that time I pleaded with the Lord ,
3:24 “O, Lord God , you have begun to show me your greatness and strength . (What god in heaven or earth can rival your works and mighty deeds ?)
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NET Notes -> Deu 3:1; Deu 3:1; Deu 3:1; Deu 3:1; Deu 3:2; Deu 3:3; Deu 3:4; Deu 3:5; Deu 3:5; Deu 3:6; Deu 3:6; Deu 3:6; Deu 3:8; Deu 3:9; Deu 3:9; Deu 3:9; Deu 3:10; Deu 3:10; Deu 3:11; Deu 3:11; Deu 3:11; Deu 3:11; Deu 3:11; Deu 3:11; Deu 3:11; Deu 3:12; Deu 3:12; Deu 3:12; Deu 3:13; Deu 3:13; Deu 3:14; Deu 3:14; Deu 3:14; Deu 3:15; Deu 3:17; Deu 3:17; Deu 3:17; Deu 3:17; Deu 3:17; Deu 3:17; Deu 3:18; Deu 3:20; Deu 3:20; Deu 3:21; Deu 3:21; Deu 3:24; Deu 3:24; Deu 3:24
NET Notes: Deu 3:1 Edrei is probably modern Deràa, 60 mi (95 km) south of Damascus (see Num 21:33; Josh 12:4; 13:12, 31; also mentioned in Deut 1:4).
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NET Notes: Deu 3:3 Heb “was left to him.” The final phrase “to him” is redundant in English and has been left untranslated.
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NET Notes: Deu 3:4 Argob. This is a subdistrict of Bashan, perhaps north of the Yarmuk River. See Y. Aharoni, Land of the Bible, 314.
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NET Notes: Deu 3:5 The Hebrew term פְּרָזִי (pÿraziy) refers to rural areas, at the most “unwalled villages...
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NET Notes: Deu 3:8 Mount Hermon. This is the famous peak at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range known today as Jebel es-Sheik.
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NET Notes: Deu 3:9 Senir. Probably this was actually one of the peaks of Hermon and not the main mountain (Song of Songs 4:8; 1 Chr 5:23). It is mentioned in a royal ins...
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NET Notes: Deu 3:11 Heb “by the cubit of man.” This probably refers to the “short” or “regular” cubit of approximately 18 in (45 cm).
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NET Notes: Deu 3:12 Reubenites and Gadites. By the time of Moses’ address the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had already been granted permission to settle in t...
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NET Notes: Deu 3:14 Havvoth-Jair. The Hebrew name means “villages of Jair,” the latter being named after a son (i.e., descendant) of Manasseh who took the are...
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NET Notes: Deu 3:15 Machir was the name of another descendant of Manasseh (cf. Num 32:41; 1 Chr 7:14-19). Eastern Manasseh was thus divided between the Jairites and the M...
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NET Notes: Deu 3:17 Pisgah. This appears to refer to a small range of mountains, the most prominent peak of which is Mount Nebo (Num 21:20; 23:14; Deut 3:27; cf. 34:1).
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