1 "Next we turned and went up along the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan came out with all his people to meet us in battle at Edrei.
2 The LORD said to me, 'Do not be afraid of him, for I am handing him over to you, with all his people and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.'
3 So the LORD our God handed over to us Og king of Bashan as well, with all his people, and we struck him down until not one of his people was left alive.
4 At that time we captured all his cities; there was not one town we did not take from them: sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, Og's kingdom in Bashan.
5 All of these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, not counting a great many unwalled towns.
6 We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every city, men, women, and children.
7 But we kept for ourselves all the livestock and the plunder from the cities.
8 So at that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land on the other side of the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon.
9 (The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.)
10 We took all the cities of the plateau, all Gilead, and all Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, the cities of Og's kingdom in Bashan.
11 (Og king of Bashan was the only one left of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed was made of iron. Is it not still in Rabbah of the Ammonites? It is nine cubits long and four cubits wide, by the standard cubit.)
12 "Of the land we took possession of at that time, I gave the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory from Aroer on the Arnon Valley, together with half the hill country of Gilead and its cities.
13 The rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (The whole region of Argob, all that part of Bashan, is called the land of the Rephaim.
14 Jair son of Manasseh took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and he named those villages of Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, as they are called to this day.)
15 To Machir I gave Gilead.
16 To the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the land from Gilead down to the Arnon Valley, with the middle of the valley as the boundary, and up to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites,
17 as well as the Arabah, with the Jordan as its boundary, from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, below the slopes of Pisgah on the east.
18 "At that time I gave you this command: 'The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. All your fighting men must cross over armed ahead of your brothers, the children of Israel.
19 But your wives, your little ones, and your livestock (I know you have a great deal of livestock) may stay in the towns I have given you
20 until the LORD gives your brothers rest as he has given you, and they too take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan. After that each of you may go back to the possession I have given you.'
21 At that time I also commanded Joshua: 'You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD your God has done to these two kings. The LORD will do the same to all the kingdoms you are going to cross over into.
22 Do not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God is the one who fights for you.'
23 "At that time I begged the LORD for mercy:
24 'Lord GOD, you have begun to show your servant your greatness and your strong hand. What god is there in heaven or on earth who can do works and mighty deeds like yours?
25 Please let me cross over and see the good land on the other side of the Jordan, that fine hill country, and the Lebanon.'
26 But the LORD was furious with me because of you and would not listen to me. The LORD said to me, 'That is enough! Do not speak to me about this matter any more.
27 Go up to the top of Pisgah and look west and north and south and east. Look at the land with your own eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan.
28 Commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he will cross over at the head of this people and will lead them to inherit the land you will see.'
29 So we stayed in the valley facing Beth-peor.