1Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan. Og the king of Bashan came out against us with all his people, to fight at Edrei.
2And the LORD said to me, "Do not be afraid of him. I will give him and all his people and his land into your hand. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon."
3So the LORD our God gave Og also, the king of Bashan, into our hands, and all his people. We struck them down until not one of them was left.
4At that time we took all his cities. There was not a city we did not take from them: sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
5All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates and bars. Besides these there were a great many towns without walls.
6We completely destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, completely destroying the men, the women and the children of every city.
7But all the cattle and the plunder of the cities we took for ourselves.
8At that time we took from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land on this side of the Jordan, from the river Arnon to Mount Hermon.
9(The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Shenir.)
10We took all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, as far as Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
11For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of giants. Look, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide, measured by a man's cubit.
12This was the land we took at that time. From Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites.
13The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half tribe of Manasseh: all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
14Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob as far as the borders of the Geshurites and the Maachathites. He called them by his own name, Bashanhavothjair, and that is their name to this day.
15And I gave Gilead to Machir.
16To the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the land from Gilead to the river Arnon, the middle of the valley being the border, and as far as the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon.
17I gave them the plain also, and the Jordan and its territory, from Chinnereth to the sea of the plain, that is, the Salt Sea, below the slopes of Pisgah on the east.
18At that time I commanded you, saying, "The LORD your God has given you this land to possess it. All of you who are fit for war shall cross over armed, ahead of your brothers the children of Israel."
19But your wives, your little ones and your cattle (for I know you have much cattle) shall stay in the cities I have given you,
20"until the LORD has given rest to your brothers as well as to you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God is giving them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you shall return to the possession I have given you."
21At that time I commanded Joshua, saying, "Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. The LORD will do the same to all the kingdoms you are going into."
22"You shall not fear them, for the LORD your God himself will fight for you."
23At that time I pleaded with the LORD, saying,
24"O Lord GOD, you have begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and such mighty acts as yours?"
25"Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that fine hill country, and Lebanon."
26But the LORD was angry with me because of you, and would not listen to me. The LORD said to me, "That is enough. Speak to me no more about this matter."
27Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes to the west, the north, the south and the east, and see it with your eyes; for you shall not cross this Jordan.
28"But command Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him. For he shall go over ahead of this people, and he shall give them the land you will see as their inheritance."
29So we stayed in the valley opposite Bethpeor.