Deuteronomy 2:31--3:16
2:31 The
Lord said to me, “Look! I have already begun to give over Sihon and his land to you. Start right now to take his land as your possession.”
2:32 When Sihon and all his troops
emerged to encounter us in battle at Jahaz,
2:33 the
Lord our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, along with his sons
and everyone else.
2:34 At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them
under divine judgment,
including even the women and children; we left no survivors.
2:35 We kept only the livestock and plunder from the cities for ourselves.
2:36 From Aroer,
which is at the edge of Wadi Arnon (it is the city in the wadi),
all the way to Gilead there was not a town able to resist us – the
Lord our God gave them all to us.
2:37 However, you did not approach the land of the Ammonites, the Wadi Jabbok,
the cities of the hill country, or any place else forbidden by the
Lord our God.
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.
Deuteronomy 8:18
8:18 You must remember the
Lord your God, for he is the one who gives ability to get wealth; if you do this he will confirm his covenant that he made by oath to your ancestors,
even as he has to this day.