Deuteronomy 3:12-20

The Defeat of King Og

12 "When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning u at Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with v its cities. 13 w The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, that is, x all the region of Argob, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (All that portion of Bashan is called the land of r Rephaim. 14 y Jair the Manassite took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of z the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called the villages a after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.) 15 To Machir b I gave Gilead, 16 and to the Reubenites c and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the Valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a border, as far over as the river Jabbok, d the border of the Ammonites; 17 the Arabah also, with the Jordan as the border, from e Chinnereth as far as f the Sea of the Arabah, g the Salt Sea, under h the slopes of Pisgah on the east.

18 "And I commanded you at that time, saying, 'The Lord your God has given you this land to possess. i All your men of valor shall cross over armed before your brothers, the people of Israel. 19 Only your wives, your little ones, and your livestock j (I know that you have much livestock) shall remain in the cities that I have given you, 20 k until the Lord gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also occupy the land that the Lord your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his possession which I have given you.'

  1. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 2:36
    From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The Lord our God gave all into our hands.
  2. Cross References
    Numbers 32:32 - 38
    We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.
    Joshua 13:8 - 13
    With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them:
  3. Cross References
    Numbers 32:39 - 42
    And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.
    Joshua 13:29 - 31
    And Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was allotted to the half-tribe of the people of Manasseh according to their clans.
  4. Cross References
    1 Kings 4:13
    Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (he had the villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and he had the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars).
  5. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 3:11
    (For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)
  6. Cross References
    Numbers 32:41
    And Jair the son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, and called them Havvoth-jair.
    1 Chronicles 2:22 - 23
    And Segub fathered Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
  7. Cross References
    Joshua 12:5
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    Joshua 13:11
    And Gilead, and the region of the Geshurites an...
    Joshua 13:13
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    2 Samuel 3:3
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    2 Samuel 10:6
    When the Ammonites saw that they had become a s...
    2 Samuel 13:37 - 38
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  8. Cross References
    Numbers 32:41
    And Jair the son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, and called them Havvoth-jair.
  9. Cross References
    Numbers 32:39
    And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.
  10. Cross References
    2 Samuel 24:5
    They crossed the Jordan and began from Aroer, and from the city that is in the middle of the valley, toward Gad and on to Jazer.
  11. Cross References
    Numbers 21:24
    And Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as to the Ammonites, for the border of the Ammonites was strong.
    Joshua 12:2
    Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the middle of the valley as far as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is, half of Gilead.
  12. Cross References
    Numbers 34:11
    And the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain. And the border shall go down and reach to the shoulder of the Sea of Chinnereth on the east.
  13. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:49
    Together with all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
    Joshua 3:16
    The waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho.
    Joshua 12:3
    And the Arabah to the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jeshimoth, to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, southward to the foot of the slopes of Pisgah.
    2 Kings 14:25
    He restored the border of Israel from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath-hepher.
  14. Cross References
    Genesis 14:3
    And all these joined forces in the Valley of Siddim ( that is, the Salt Sea).
  15. Cross References
    Numbers 21:15
    And the slope of the valleys that extends to the seat of Ar, and leans to the border of Moab.
  16. Cross References
    Numbers 32:20 - 21
    So Moses said to them, "If you will do this, if you will take up arms to go before the Lord for the war.
    Joshua 1:14
    Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall remain in the land that Moses gave you beyond the Jordan, but all the men of valor among you shall pass over armed before your brothers and shall help them.
    Joshua 4:12
    The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh passed over armed before the people of Israel, as Moses had told them.
  17. Cross References
    Numbers 32:1
    Now the people of Reuben and the people of Gad had a very great number of livestock. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place for livestock.
    Numbers 32:4
    The land that the Lord struck down before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.
  18. Cross References
    Joshua 22:4
    And now the Lord your God has given rest to your brothers, as he promised them. Therefore turn and go to your tents in the land where your possession lies, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side of the Jordan.
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