So Yahweh our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people. We struck him until no one was left to him remaining. We took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we didn’t take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, in addition to a great many villages without walls. We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.
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So Yahweh our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people. We struck him until no one was left to him remaining. We took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we didn’t take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, in addition to a great many villages without walls. We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. But all the livestock, and the plunder of the cities, we took for plunder for ourselves. We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon. (The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.) We took all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its width, after the cubit of a man.) This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites; 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, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim. Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.) I gave Gilead to Machir. To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
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So Yahweh our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people. We struck him until no one was left to him remaining.
We took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we didn’t take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, in addition to a great many villages without walls.
We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.
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So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.
And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
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So the LORD our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people; and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.
And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not from them; threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
All these were fortified cities, with high walls, gates, and bars; beside the unwalled towns a great many.
And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every city, the men, and the women, and the little ones.
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- Deuteronomy 2:34 (v6) We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We left no one…
- 1 Kings 4:13 (v4) Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, belonged to him; and the region of Argob, which is…
- Numbers 21:35 (v3) So they struck him, with his sons and all his people, until there were no survivors; and they possessed his land.
- Deuteronomy 2:24 (v6) “Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon,…
- Psalms 135:10-12 (v6) He struck many nations, and killed mighty kings, Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan, and gave…
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- Leviticus 27:28-29 (v6) “ ‘Notwithstanding, no devoted thing that a man devotes to Yahweh of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field of his…
- Numbers 13:28 (v5) However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak…
- Numbers 21:2 (v6) Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”
- Numbers 32:33-42 (v4) Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the…
- Deuteronomy 1:28 (v5) Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and…
- Deuteronomy 2:33-34 (v3) Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, his sons, and all his people. We took all his cities at that time, and…
- Deuteronomy 3:2 (v6) Yahweh said to me, “Don’t fear him; for I have delivered him, with all his people, and his land, into your hand. You shall do to him as you…
- Deuteronomy 20:16-18 (v6) But of the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes; but you…
- Joshua 11:14 (v6) The children of Israel took all the plunder of these cities, with the livestock, as plunder for themselves; but every man they struck with…
- Joshua 12:4 (v4) and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
- Joshua 13:12 (v3) all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (who was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses attacked…
- Joshua 13:30 (v3) Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the villages of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty…
- Joshua 13:30-31 (v4) Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the villages of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty…
- Psalms 136:19-21 (v6) Sihon king of the Amorites; for his loving kindness endures forever; Og king of Bashan; for his loving kindness endures forever; and gave…
- Hebrews 11:30 (v5) By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv5–6 As villages and small towns.
As villages and small towns.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv5–6 Deu 3:5 All these cities [were] fenced with high…
Deu 3:5 All these cities [were] fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
Ver. 5. All those cities.] And they were threescore. How well might Moses have been styled πτολιπορθης? or, as King Demetrius was, Poliorcetes, the city taker?
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv4–5 Argob; a province within Bashan, or at least subject…
Argob; a province within Bashan, or at least subject and belonging to Bashan, as appears from Deu 3:13; 1Ki 4:13; called Argob possibly from the name of a man, its former lord and owner.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv3–6 So the Lord our God delivered into our hands…
So the Lord our God delivered into our hands Og also the king of Bashan, and all his people,.... As well as Sihon king of Heshbon:
and we smote him, till none was left to him remaining; or left alive, all were slain with the sword; See Gill on Num 21:35.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v4 Verse 4. All the region of Argob] כל חבל…
Verse 4. All the region of Argob] כל חבל ארגב col chebel Argob, all the cable or cord of Argob; this expression, which is used in various other parts of Scripture, (see, in the original, Am 7:17; Mic 2:5; De 32:9; Ps 16:6), shows that anciently land was measured by lines or cords of a certain length, in a similar way to that by the chain among us, and the schoenus or cord among the Egyptians. Some think that it was the region of Argob that was afterwards called the region of Trachonites.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv4–5 Threescore cities - Probably the cities of Jair in…
Threescore cities - Probably the cities of Jair in Bashan described in Deu 3:14 as Bashan-havoth-jair.
All the region of Argob - The Hebrew word here rendered “region,” means literally “rope” or “cable”; and though undoubtedly used elsewhere in a general topographical sense for portion or district (e. g. Jos 17:5), has a special propriety in reference to Argob (mod. Lejah). The name Argob means “stone-heap,” and is paraphrased by the Targums, Trachonitis Luk 3:1, or “the rough country;” titles designating the more striking features of the district. Its borders are compared to a rugged shore-line; hence, its description in the text as “the girdle of the stony country,” would seem especially appropriate. (Others identify Argob with the east quarter of the Hauran.)
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv4–6 Country. Hebrew, "the line" with which lands were measured,…
Country. Hebrew, "the line" with which lands were measured, chap. xxxii. 9. --- Argob may signify rich and fertile; "all that fertile region, the kingdom of Og." Vatable thinks that Basan, Argob, and Trachonitis, denote the same country. But Cellarius observes, that the last mentioned country was ill cultivated and very poor, the inhabitants living mostly in the caverns of rocks, whereas Argob or Basan was adorned with 60 cities.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On v3 Argob was the capital of a district in Bashan…
Argob was the capital of a district in Bashan of the same name, which, together with other fifty-nine cities in the same province, were conspicuous for their lofty and fortified walls. It was a war of extermination. Houses and cities were razed to the ground; all classes of people were put to the sword; and nothing was saved but the cattle, of which an immense amount fell as spoil into the hands of the conquerors. Thus, the two Amorite kings and the entire population of their dominions were extirpated. The whole country east of the Jordan--first upland downs from the torrent of the Arnon on the south to that of the Jabbok on the north; next the high mountain tract of Gilead and Bashan from the deep ravine of Jabbok--became the possession of the Israelites.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv4–5 4. Threescore cities, all the region of Argob —…
4. Threescore cities, all the region of Argob — In every instance in which Argob is mentioned there is accompanying it the descriptive word חבל, rope. Our translators have rendered it “region” in one place and “country” in another. It evidently means a sharply defined border, as if measured by a line or rope. Porter’s Giant Cities of Bashan says: “It thus describes with singular accuracy and minuteness the rocky rampart which encircles the Lejah,” the modern name of Argob. The Argob is a vast field of basalt placed in the midst of a fertile plain. Its surface has an elevation of about thirty feet, and its border is clearly defined by a bank of broken cliffs. In this region were the sixty cities mentioned in the text.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv3–6 3. none … remaining] Deu_2:34.
3. none … remaining] Deu_2:34.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv4, 6 (4, 5) These details are not given in Numbers.…
(4, 5) These details are not given in Numbers. Professor Porter, in the Griant Cities of Bashan, has well described the impression made upon him by verifying this description in detail. “The whole of Bashan,” he says, “is not larger than an ordinary English county.” That “sixty walled cities, ‘besides unwalled towns a great many,’ should exist in a small province, at such a remote age, far from the sea, with no rivers and little commerce, appeared to be inexplicable. Inexplicable, mysterious though it appeared, it was true. On the spot, with my own eyes, I had now verified it. A list of more than one hundred ruined cities and villages, situated in these mountains alone, I had in my hands; and on the spot I had tested it, and found it accurate, though not complete.” Many of the cities in the mountains are not ruins. Rooms, doors, bars are entire to this day. The region of Argob is distinctly marked out by its natural boundaries, and well described by the same writer.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv4–6 Threescore cities; probably the same as the Bashan-havoth jair,…
Threescore cities; probably the same as the Bashan-havoth jair, afterwards mentioned (ver. 14). The region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. The region of Argob comprised the kingdom of Og, and Bashan was another name for the same country; extending from the Jabbok to Hermon, and embracing both the northern part of Gilead, and what was afterwards in a stricter sense Bashan, viz. the land north of the Wady Zerka (hod. Jebel Ajlan) to Hermon. The name Argob is supposed by some to be given to the district from a town of that name, fifteen Roman miles eastward from Gerasa, a city of Arabia (Eusebius); but more probably it is derived from the character of the district, either as deep-soiled (from bgr, a clod), or as rugged and uneven (bwOgr, from bgr; akin to r; to heap up), just as the neighboring district to the east and northeast received the name Traohonitis (from tracwn, rough, rugged); in the Targum, indeed, Trachona (anwkrf) is the name given here for Argob. This district is now known as the province of El-Lejah (The Retreat). It is described as oval in form, about twenty-two miles long by fourteen wide; a plateau elevated about thirty feet above the surrounding plain. Its features are most remarkable. It is composed of a thick stratum of black basalt, which seems to have been emitted in a liquid state from pores in the earth, and to have flowed out on all sides till the whole surface was covered. It is rent and shattered as if by internal convulsion. The cup-like cavities from which the liquid mass was projected are still seen, and also the wavy surface such as a thick liquid generally assumes which cools as it is flowing. There are deep fissures and yawning gulfs with rugged, broken edges; and there are jagged mounds that seem not to have been sufficiently heated to flow, but which were forced up by some mighty agency, and then rent and shattered to their centers. The rock is filled with air-bubbles, and is almost as hard as iron. (Dr. Porter, in Kitto, "Biblical Cyclopaedia," 3:1032; see also the same author"s "Five Years in Damascus," 2:240, etc.; and "The Giant Cities of Bashan"; Burckhardt, "Travels in Syria," p. 110, etc.; Wetstein, "Reisebericht fib. Hauran," p. 82, etc.; a paper by Mr. Cyrill Graham in the Cambridge Essays for 1858; and Smith"s "Dictionary," art. "Trachonitis.") The entire trans-Jordanic region was thus captured by the Israelites.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv3, 5 all his people were put under our control
all his people were put under our control
This can be stated in active form. AT: "Yahweh put all of Og's people under our control" (See: Active or Passive)
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not one of his people remained
This is a litotes that is used to emphasize that the Israelites did not let anyone live. AT: "all of his people were dead" (See: Litotes)
There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take
This is a double negative that emphasizes that they took all of the 60 cities. AT: "We took every one of the sixty cities" (See: Double Negatives)
sixty cities
"60 cities" (See: Numbers)
the region of Argob
This is the name of a region within Bashan. (See: How to Translate Names)
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Bashan
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v4 3:4 Argob might be synonymous with Bashan or might…
3:4 Argob might be synonymous with Bashan or might refer to a heavily populated part of Bashan.
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