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Deuteronomy 3:11Next we set out on the route to Bashan, but King Og of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 1:4Deut 29:7Num 21:33-35Ps 135:10-11Ps 136:201 Kgs 4:19Deut 31:4Deut 4:47Josh 12:4Josh 13:30
Deuteronomy 3:22The Lord, however, said to me, “Don’t be afraid of him because I have already given him, his whole army, and his land to you. You will do to him exactly what you did to King Sihon of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 20:17Num 21:23-25Rev 2:10Acts 18:9Acts 27:24Deut 2:24-37Deut 20:3Deut 3:11Isa 41:10Isa 43:5
Deuteronomy 3:33So the Lord our God did indeed give over to us King Og of Bashan and his whole army, and we struck them down until not a single survivor was left.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 21:35Deut 2:33-34Josh 13:12Josh 13:30
Deuteronomy 3:44We captured all his cities at that time—there was not a town we did not take from them—sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the dominion of Og in Bashan.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 4:13Josh 12:4Josh 13:30-31Num 32:33-42
Deuteronomy 3:55All of these cities were fortified by high walls, gates, and locking bars; in addition there were a great many open villages.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 1:28Heb 11:30Num 13:28
Deuteronomy 3:66We put all of these under divine judgment just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon—every occupied city, including women and children.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 2:34Deut 2:24Ps 135:10-12Deut 20:16-18Deut 3:2Josh 11:14Lev 27:28-29Num 21:2Ps 136:19-21
Deuteronomy 3:77But all the livestock and plunder from the cities we kept for ourselves.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 2:35Josh 11:11-14Josh 8:27
Deuteronomy 3:88So at that time we took the land of the two Amorite kings in the Transjordan from Wadi Arnon to Mount HermonCopy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 12:2-6Josh 13:9-12Num 32:33-42
Deuteronomy 3:99(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion and the Amorites call it Senir),Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 5:23Ps 29:6Ezek 27:5Ps 133:3Song 4:8Deut 4:48-49Josh 11:17Ps 89:12
Deuteronomy 3:1010all the cities of the plateau, all of Gilead and Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 4:49Josh 12:4-5Josh 13:11-12Josh 13:31Num 21:33
Deuteronomy 3:1111Only King Og of Bashan was left of the remaining Rephaites. (It is noteworthy that his sarcophagus was made of iron. Does it not, indeed, still remain in Rabbath of the Ammonites? It is 13½ feet long and 6 feet wide according to standard measure.)Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 14:52 Sam 12:26Jer 49:21 Sam 17:42 Sam 11:1Amos 1:14Amos 2:9Deut 2:11Deut 2:20Ezek 21:20
Deuteronomy 3:1212This is the land we brought under our control at that time: The territory extending from Aroer by the Wadi Arnon and half the Gilead hill country with its cities I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 2:36Num 32:32-382 Kgs 10:33Deut 4:48Josh 12:2-6Josh 13:8-28
Deuteronomy 3:1313The rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. (All the region of Argob, that is, all Bashan, is called the land of Rephaim.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 32:39-421 Chr 5:23-26Josh 13:29-32
Deuteronomy 3:1414Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the Argob region as far as the border with the Geshurites and Maacathites —namely Bashan—and called it by his name, Havvoth Jair, which it retains to this very day.)Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 32:412 Sam 10:62 Sam 13:372 Sam 3:3Josh 13:131 Chr 2:21-23
Deuteronomy 3:1515I gave Gilead to Machir.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 32:39-40Gen 50:23Josh 17:1-3Josh 22:7Num 26:29
Deuteronomy 3:1616To the Reubenites and Gadites I allocated the territory extending from Gilead as far as Wadi Arnon (the exact middle of the wadi was a boundary) all the way to the Wadi Jabbok, the Ammonite border.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 21:242 Sam 24:5Deut 2:37Gen 32:22Josh 12:2-3Num 32:33-38
Deuteronomy 3:1717The rift valley and the Jordan River were also a border, from the Sea of Kinnereth to the sea of the rift valley (that is, the Salt Sea), beneath the slopes of Pisgah to the east.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 12:3Gen 14:3Josh 3:16Deut 4:49Gen 13:10Gen 19:28-29Josh 13:27Josh 15:2Josh 15:5Josh 18:19
Deuteronomy 3:1818At that time I instructed you as follows: “The Lord your God has given you this land for your possession. You warriors are to cross over equipped for battle before your fellow Israelites.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 32:20-24Josh 4:12-13Josh 1:12-15Josh 22:1-9
Deuteronomy 3:1919But your wives, children, and livestock (of which I know you have many) may remain in the cities I have given you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Deuteronomy 3:2020You must fight until the Lord gives your countrymen victory as he did you and they take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan River. Then each of you may return to his own territory that I have given you.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 22:4Josh 22:8
Deuteronomy 3:2121I also commanded Joshua at the same time, “You have seen everything the Lord your God did to these two kings; he will do the same to all the kingdoms where you are going.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 27:18-231 Sam 17:36-372 Cor 1:102 Cor 12:102 Tim 4:17-18Eph 3:20Josh 10:25Ps 9:10
Deuteronomy 3:2222Do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God will personally fight for you.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 20:4Exod 14:14Deut 1:302 Chr 20:172 Chr 20:29Josh 10:42Isa 43:1-2Ps 44:32 Chr 13:12Num 21:34
Deuteronomy 3:2323Moreover, at that time I pleaded with the Lord,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 12:8-9
Deuteronomy 3:2424“O, Sovereign Lord, you have begun to show me your greatness and strength. (What god in heaven or earth can rival your works and mighty deeds?)Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 15:11Deut 11:2Ps 71:192 Sam 7:22Jer 32:18-21Ps 86:8Dan 3:29Isa 40:25Jer 10:6Neh 9:32
Deuteronomy 3:2525Let me please cross over to see the good land on the other side of the Jordan River—this good hill country and the Lebanon!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 4:21-22Deut 11:11-12Exod 3:8Ezek 20:6
Deuteronomy 3:2626But the Lord was angry at me because of you and would not listen to me. Instead, he said to me, “Enough of that! Do not speak to me anymore about this matter.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 1:37Deut 31:21 Chr 22:7-91 Chr 28:2-42 Cor 12:8Isa 53:5-6Matt 26:39Ps 106:32-33Num 20:7-121 Chr 17:12-13
Deuteronomy 3:2727Go up to the top of Pisgah and take a good look to the west, north, south, and east, for you will not be allowed to cross the Jordan.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 27:12Deut 34:1-4Gen 13:14-15
Deuteronomy 3:2828Commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, because he will lead these people over and will enable them to inherit the land you will see.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 31:3Deut 1:38Deut 31:23Deut 31:7Acts 7:45Num 27:18-231 Chr 22:11-161 Chr 22:61 Chr 28:201 Chr 28:9-10
Deuteronomy 3:2929So we settled down in the valley opposite Beth Peor.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 34:6Deut 4:46Num 25:3Deut 4:3Num 33:48-49
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