Deuteronomy 2:26-3:17
26“aSo I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, 27‘Let me pass through your land, I will 1go only on the highway; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left. 28‘You will sell me food for money so that I may eat, and give me water for money so that I may drink; aonly let me pass through on 1foot, 29just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in aAr did for me, until I cross over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God is giving to us.’ 30“But aSihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass 1through his land, for bYahweh your God stiffened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to give him over into your hand, as he is today. 31“And Yahweh said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land 1over to you. Begin to possess, so that you may fully possess his land.’
32“Then Sihon 1with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz. 33“aBut Yahweh our God gave him 1over to us, and we bstruck him down with his sons and all his people. 34“So we captured all his cities at that time and 1,adevoted to destruction 2the men, women, and little ones of every city. We left no survivor remaining. 35“We took aonly the animals as our plunder and the spoil of the cities which we had captured. 36“From aAroer which is on the edge of the 1valley of Arnon and from the city which is in the 2valley, even to Gilead, there was not a town that was too high for us; Yahweh our God gave all 3over to us. 37“aOnly you did not go near to the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the 1river bJabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God had commanded us.
Israel Takes Possession of the Land
3“aThen we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan, 1with all his people, came out to meet us in battle at Edrei. 2“But Yahweh said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land over into your hand; and you shall do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.’ 3“So Yahweh our God also gave Og, king of Bashan, with all his people over into our hand, and we struck 1them until 2there was no survivor remaining for him. 4“And we captured all his cities at that time; there was not a town which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of aArgob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 5“All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates and bars, besides a great many 1unwalled towns. 6“And we 1devoted them to destruction, as we did to aSihon king of Heshbon, 2,bdevoting to destruction 3the men, women, and little ones of every city. 7“aBut all the animals and the spoil of the cities we took as our plunder.
8“aThus we took the land at that time from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the 1valley of Arnon to Mount Hermon 9(Sidonians acall Hermon bSirion, and the Amorites call it cSenir): 10all the cities of the plateau and all Gilead and aall Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 11(For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the aRephaim. Behold, his 1bedstead was an iron 2bedstead; it is in bRabbah of the sons of Ammon. Its length was 3nine cubits, and its width four cubits 4by ordinary cubit.)
12“So we took possession of this land at that time. From aAroer, which is by the 1valley of Arnon, and half the hill country of bGilead and its cities I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites. 13“And the rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob. (Concerning all Bashan, it is called the land of Rephaim. 14aJair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites and called 1it—that is, Bashan—after his own name, 2Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.) 15“aAnd to Machir I gave Gilead. 16“And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even as far as the 1valley of Arnon, the middle of the 2valley 3as a border and as far as the 4river aJabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon; 17the Arabah also, with the Jordan 1as a border, from 2,aChinnereth beven as far as the sea of the Arabah, cthe Salt Sea, 3at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah on the east.