Then we turned and went up the way to Basan. And Og the king of Basan
came out against us: both he and all his people to battle at Edrei. And
the LORD said unto me: fear him not, for I have delivered him and all
his people and his land into thy hand and thou shalt deal with him as
thou dealest with Sihon king of the Amorites which dwelt at Hesbon. And
so the LORD our God delivered into our hands, Og also the king of Basan
and all his folk. And we smote him until nought was left him. And we
took all his cities the same season (for there was not a city which we
took not from them) even three score cities, all the region of Argob,
the kingdom of Og in Basan. All these cities were made strong with high
walls, gates and bars, beside unwalled towns a great many. And we
utterly destroyed them, as we played with Sihon king of Hesbon:
bringing to nought all the cities with men, women and children. But all
the cattle and the spoil of the cities, we caught for ourselves. And
thus we took the same season, the land out of the hand of two kings of
the Amorites on the other side Iordan, from the river of Arnon unto
mount Hermon (which Hermon the Sidons call Sirion, but the Amorites
call it Senir) all the cities in the plain and all Gilead and all Basan
unto Salcha and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Basan. For only
Og king of Basan remained of the remnant of the giants: behold, his
iron bed is yet at Rabath among the children of Ammon nine cubits long
and, four cubits broad, of the cubits of a man. And when we had
conquered this land the same time, I gave from Aroer which is upon the
river of Arnon, and half mount Gilead and the cities thereof unto the
Rubenites, and Gadites. And the rest of Gilead and all Basan the
kingdom of Og, I gave unto the half tribe of Manasse: all the region of
Argob with all Basan was called the land of giants. Iair the son of
Manasse took all the region of Argob unto the coasts of Gesuri and
Maachati, and called the towns of Basan after his own name: the towns
of [Havoth] Iair unto this day. And I gave half Gilead unto Machir. And
unto Ruben and Gad, I gave from Gilead unto the river of Arnon and half
the valley and the coast, even unto the river Iabock which is the
border of the children of Ammon, and the fields and Iordan with the
coast, from Cenereth even unto the sea in the field which is the salt
sea under the springs of Pisga eastward. And I commanded you the same
time (ye Ruben and Gad) saying: the LORD your God hath given you this
land to enjoy it: see that ye go harnessed before your brethren the
children of Israel, all that are men of war among you. Your wives only,
your children and your cattle (for I wot that ye have much cattle)
shall abide in your cities which I have given you, until the LORD have
given rest unto your brethren as well as unto you, and until they also
have conquered the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond
Iordan: and then return again every man unto his possession which I
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