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And they turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og, king of Bashan, went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
And Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og, king of Bashan, the land with its cities and their borders, as well as the cities of the land around it.
after he had defeated Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth near Edrei.
Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og, king of Bashan, came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
So the Lord our God (Yahweh Elohim) also gave Og, king of Bashan, into our hands, and all his people, and we struck him down until there were no survivors.
And we took all his cities at that time—there was not a city that we did not take from them—60 cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
all the cities on the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, as far as Salca and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
For only Og, king of Bashan, remained of the remnant of the Rephaim []. Yes [see, note – this is remarkable], his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon [the present city of Amman in Jordan, as a museum piece]? [The size of the bed was also spectacular:] Its length was 9 cubits [4.1 meters] and its width was 4 cubits [1.8 meters], according to a man's cubit.
[Iron was unusual at this time during the late Bronze Age. This, together with the size of the bed, was the reason it attracted attention. The measurement of a cubit (Hebr. ammah) derives from the length of a man's forearm; the distance between the elbow and the middle finger – about 45 cm. There is also a longer royal cubit, which is 52 cm, but since it explicitly says "a man's cubit" here, it is the shorter cubit that is referred to here.]
and the rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the whole area of Argob, all Bashan, which is called the land of the Rephaim.
And they took possession of his land and the land of Og, king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites who were on the other side of the Jordan toward the sunrise (eastward)
And when you came to this place [east of the Jordan River], Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, came out against us in battle, and we defeated them [].
The Lord (Yahweh) will do to them [the seven peoples of the land of Canaan] as he did to Shion and Og, kings of the Amorites, when he destroyed them and their land [].
We have heard how the Lord caused the Red Sea (Hebr. jam sof) [Red Sea] dry up when you left Egypt [], and how you defeated the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og, on the other side of the [Jordan] River. []
and what he did to the two kings of the Ammonites who lived beyond the Jordan, to Sihon, king of
Cheshbon, and to
Og, king of
[the region] Bashan in
[the city] Ashtaroth.
[These two cities were located along the King's Highway, see ; , the important north-south trade route and military route east of the Jordan that connected Damascus in the north and Ezion-geber (present-day Eilat) in the south.]and the border of Og, king of Bashan, the remnant of Rephaim who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edrei,
the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, the same as the remnant of Rephaim, whom Moses smote and drove out.
And the border was from Mahanaim, all the kingdom of Og, king of Bashan, and the villages of Jair, which are in Bashan, 60 cities.
And half of Gilead and Ashtaroth and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the sons of Machir, the son of Manasseh, for half of the sons of Machir according to their families.
Gever, son of Or – in the land of Gilead, the land that belonged to Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, and a leader in the land (probably meaning that he was the head of the other leaders in the same area).
And you gave them kingdoms and peoples, and divided different areas among them. They took the land of Sihon, king of the land of Heshbon, and King Og of the land of Bashan.
Sihon, king of the Amorites,
and Og, king of Bashan []
and all the kingdoms of Canaan [; ],
and Og, king of Bashan,
forever (eternally) lasts his mercy (caring, faithful love).
