Let me please cross over to see the good land on the other side of the Jordan River – this good hill country and the Lebanon!”

And it is not across the sea, as though one must say, “Who will cross over to the other side of the sea and get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”

The Lord will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,

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.”

Then Moses selected three cities in the Transjordan, toward the east.

including all the Arabah of the Transjordan in the east to the sea of the Arabah, beneath the watershed of Pisgah.)

This is what Moses said to the assembly of Israel in the Transjordanian wastelands, the arid country opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di Zahab

They possessed his land and that of King Og of Bashan – both of whom were Amorite kings in the Transjordan, to the east.

So it was in the Transjordan, in Moab, that Moses began to deliver these words:

So at that time we took the land of the two Amorite kings in the Transjordan from Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon

“Take this scroll of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God. It will remain there as a witness against you,

in the Transjordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. (It is he whom Moses and the Israelites attacked after they came out of Egypt.

Are they not across the Jordan River, toward the west, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah opposite Gilgal near the oak of Moreh?

You must be certain to tithe all the produce of your seed that comes from the field year after year.

If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it.

“Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the roadway. I will not turn aside to the right or the left.

So I must die here in this land; I will not cross the Jordan. But you are going over and will possess that good land.

I declare to you this very day that you will certainly perish! You will not extend your time in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

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.

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.