Deuteronomy 2:24-3:11
New American Standard Bible
24 ‘Arise, set out, and pass through the [a](A)Valley of Arnon. Look! I have handed over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; start taking possession and plunge into battle with him. 25 This day I will begin to put (B)the dread and fear of you upon the faces of [b]people everywhere, [c]who, when they hear the news of you, (C)will tremble and be in anguish because of you.’
26 “(D)So 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 [d]travel only on the road. 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, (E)only let me pass through on [e]foot, 29 just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in (F)Ar did for me, until I cross over the Jordan into the land that the Lord our God is giving us.’ 30 But (G)Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass [f]through his land; for the (H)Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to hand him over to you, as he is today. 31 And the Lord said to me, ‘See, I have begun to turn Sihon and his land over [g]to you. Begin taking possession, so that you may possess his land.’
32 “Then Sihon came out [h]with all his people to meet us in battle at Jahaz. 33 And (I)the Lord our God turned him over [i]to us, and we [j](J)defeated him with his sons and all his people. 34 So we captured all his cities at that time and [k](K)utterly destroyed [l]the men, women, and children of every city. We left no survivor. 35 We took (L)only the animals as our plunder, and the spoils of the cities which we had captured. 36 From (M)Aroer which is on the edge of the [m]Valley of Arnon and from the city which is in the [n]valley, even to Gilead, there was no city that was too [o]high for us; the Lord our God turned it all over [p]to us. 37 (N)Only you did not go near the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the [q]river (O)Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the Lord our God had commanded us to avoid.
Conquests Recounted
3 “(P)Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og, king of Bashan, came out [r]with all his people to meet us in battle at Edrei. 2 But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have handed him and all his people and his land over to you; and you shall do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.’ 3 So the Lord our God also handed over to us Og, king of Bashan, with all his people, and we struck [s]them until no survivor was [t]left. 4 We captured all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of (Q)Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 5 All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many [u]unwalled towns. 6 We [v]utterly destroyed them, as we did to (R)Sihon king of Heshbon, [w](S)utterly destroying [x]the men, women, and children of every city. 7 (T)But all the animals and the spoils of the cities we took as our plunder.
8 “(U)So at that time we took the land from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the [y]Valley of Arnon to Mount Hermon 9 (Sidonians (V)call Hermon (W)Sirion, and the Amorites call it (X)Senir): 10 all the cities of the plateau, all Gilead, and (Y)all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 11 (For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the (Z)Rephaim. Behold, his [z]bed was a [aa]bed of iron; it is in (AA)Rabbah of the sons of Ammon. Its length was nine cubits, and its width four cubits by [ab]the usual cubit.)
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 2:24 Or wadi
- Deuteronomy 2:25 Lit peoples under all the heavens
- Deuteronomy 2:25 Lit who will hear...and tremble
- Deuteronomy 2:27 Lit go on the road, on the road
- Deuteronomy 2:28 Lit my feet
- Deuteronomy 2:30 Lit by him
- Deuteronomy 2:31 Lit before you
- Deuteronomy 2:32 Lit he and
- Deuteronomy 2:33 Lit before us
- Deuteronomy 2:33 Lit struck
- Deuteronomy 2:34 Or put under the ban
- Deuteronomy 2:34 Lit every city of men...
- Deuteronomy 2:36 Or wadi
- Deuteronomy 2:36 Or wadi
- Deuteronomy 2:36 Or strong
- Deuteronomy 2:36 Lit before us
- Deuteronomy 2:37 Or wadi
- Deuteronomy 3:1 Lit he and
- Deuteronomy 3:3 Lit him
- Deuteronomy 3:3 Lit left to him
- Deuteronomy 3:5 Or rural
- Deuteronomy 3:6 Or put them under the ban
- Deuteronomy 3:6 Or putting under the ban
- Deuteronomy 3:6 Lit every city of men...
- Deuteronomy 3:8 Or wadi
- Deuteronomy 3:11 Or couch
- Deuteronomy 3:11 Or couch
- Deuteronomy 3:11 Lit by a man’s forearm; about 14 ft. long and 6 ft. wide or 4 m and 1.8 m
Deuteronomy 2:24-3:11
King James Version
24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
25 This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
26 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
27 Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.
28 Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet;
29 (As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the Lord our God giveth us.
30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the Lord thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
31 And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.
32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
33 And the Lord our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:
35 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
36 From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the Lord our God delivered all unto us:
37 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the Lord our God forbad us.
3 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
2 And the Lord said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
3 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.
4 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.
5 All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
8 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;
9 (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)
10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
Deuteronomy 2:24-3:11
Living Bible
24 “Then the Lord said, ‘Cross the Arnon River into the land of King Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon. War against him and begin to take possession of his land. 25 Beginning today I will make people throughout the whole earth tremble with fear because of you, and dread your arrival.’
26 “Then from the wilderness of Kedemoth I sent ambassadors to King Sihon of Heshbon with a proposal of peace. 27 ‘Let us pass through your land,’ we said. ‘We will stay on the main road and won’t turn off into the fields on either side. 28 We will not steal food as we go, but will purchase every bite we eat and everything we drink; all we want is permission to pass through. 29 The Edomites at Seir allowed us to go through their country, and so did the Moabites, whose capital is at Ar. We are on our way across the Jordan into the land the Lord our God has given us.’
30 “But King Sihon refused because Jehovah your God made him obstinate, so that he could destroy Sihon by the hands of Israel, as has now been done.
31 “Then the Lord said to me, ‘I have begun to give you the land of King Sihon; when you possess it, it shall belong to Israel forever.’
32 “King Sihon then declared war on us and mobilized his forces at Jahaz. 33-34 But the Lord our God crushed him, and we conquered all his cities and utterly destroyed everything, including the women and babies. We left nothing alive 35-36 except the cattle, which we took as our reward, along with the booty gained from ransacking the cities we had taken. We conquered everything from Aroer to Gilead—from the edge of the Arnon River Valley, and including all the cities in the valley. Not one city was too strong for us, for the Lord our God gave all of them to us. 37 However, we stayed away from the people of Ammon and from the Jabbok River and the hill country cities, the places Jehovah our God had forbidden us to enter.
3 1-2 “Next we turned toward King Og’s land of Bashan. He immediately mobilized his army and attacked us at Edrei. But the Lord told me not to be afraid of him. ‘All his people and his land are yours,’ the Lord told me. ‘You will do to him as you did to King Sihon of the Amorites at Heshbon.’ 3 So the Lord helped us fight against King Og and his people, and we killed them all. 4 We conquered all sixty of his cities, the entire Argob region of Bashan. 5 These were well-fortified cities with high walls and barred gates. Of course we also took all of the unwalled towns. 6 We utterly destroyed the kingdom of Bashan just as we had destroyed King Sihon’s kingdom at Heshbon, killing the entire population—men, women, and children alike. 7 But we kept the cattle and loot for ourselves.
8 “We now possessed all the land of the two kings of the Amorites east of the Jordan River—all the land from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon. 9 (The Sidonians called Mount Hermon ‘Sirion,’ while the Amorites called it ‘Senir.’) 10 We had now conquered all the cities on the plateau, and all of Gilead and Bashan as far as the cities of Salecah and Edrei.
11 “Incidentally, King Og of Bashan was the last of the giant Rephaim. His iron bedstead is kept in a museum at Rabbah, one of the cities of the Ammonites, and measures thirteen and a half feet long by six feet wide.
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