Deuteronomy 3:1-7

Defeat of King Og of Bashan

3:1 Next we set out on ¹  the route to Bashan, ²  but King Og of Bashan and his whole army ³  came out to meet us in battle at Edrei. ⁴  3:2 The Lord, however, said to me, “Don’t be afraid of him because I have already given him, his whole army, ⁵  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. ⁶  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, ⁷  the dominion of Og in Bashan. 3:5 All of these cities were fortified by high walls, gates, and locking bars; ⁸  in addition there were a great many open villages. ⁹  3:6 We put all of these under divine judgment ¹⁰  just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon – every occupied city, ¹¹  including women and children. 3:7 But all the livestock and plunder from the cities we kept for ourselves.

Deuteronomy 3:10

3:10 all the cities of the plateau, all of Gilead and Bashan as far as Salecah ¹²  and Edrei, ¹³  cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

[3:1]  ¹ tn Heb “turned and went up.”

[3:1]  ² sn Bashan. This plateau country, famous for its oaks (Isa 2:13) and cattle (Deut 32:14; Amos 4:1), was north of Gilead along the Yarmuk River.

[3:1]  ³ tn Heb “people.”

[3:1]  ⁴ sn 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).

[3:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “people.”

[3:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “was left to him.” The final phrase “to him” is redundant in English and has been left untranslated.

[3:4]  ⁷ sn Argob. This is a subdistrict of Bashan, perhaps north of the Yarmuk River. See Y. Aharoni, Land of the Bible, 314.

[3:5]  ⁸ tn Or “high walls and barred gates” (NLT); Heb “high walls, gates, and bars.” Since “bars” could be understood to mean “saloons,” the qualifying adjective “locking” has been supplied in the translation.

[3:5]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew term פְּרָזִי (pÿraziy) refers to rural areas, at the most “unwalled villages” (KJV, NASB “unwalled towns”).

[3:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “we put them under the ban” (נַחֲרֵם, nakharem). See note at 2:34.

[3:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “city of men.”

[3:10]  ¹² sn Salecah. Today this is known as Salkhad, in Jordan, about 31 mi (50 km) east of the Jordan River in the Hauran Desert.

[3:10]  ¹³ sn Edrei. See note on this term in 3:1.