Moses recounts the defeat of Og, king of Bashan, and the settling of the east-bank tribes. He pleads with God to let him cross the Jordan, but God says no and tells him to commission Joshua.
1 Then we turned , and went up the way to Bashan : and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people , to battle at Edrei .
2 And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people , and his land , into thy hand ; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites , which dwelt at Heshbon .
3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan , and all his people : and we smote him until none was left to him remaining .
4 And we took all his cities at that time , there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities , all the region of Argob , the kingdom of Og in Bashan .
5 All these cities were fenced with high walls , gates , and bars ; beside unwalled towns a great many .
6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon , utterly destroying the men , women , and children , of every city .
7 But all the cattle , and the spoil of the cities , we took for a prey to ourselves.
8 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan , from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon ;
9 ( Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion ; and the Amorites call it Shenir ;)
10 All the cities of the plain , and all Gilead , and all Bashan , unto Salchah and Edrei , cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan .
11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants ; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron ; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon ? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man .
12 And this land , which we possessed at that time , from Aroer , which is by the river Arnon , and half mount Gilead , and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites .
13 And the rest of Gilead , and all Bashan , being the kingdom of Og , gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh ; all the region of Argob , with all Bashan , which was called the land of giants .
14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi ; and called them after his own name , Bashanhavothjair , unto this day .
15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir .
16 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley , and the border even unto the river Jabbok , which is the border of the children of Ammon ;
17 The plain also, and Jordan , and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain , even the salt sea , under Ashdothpisgah eastward .
18 And I commanded you at that time , saying , The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel , all that are meet for the war .
19 But your wives , and your little ones , and your cattle ,( for I know that ye have much cattle ,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;
20 Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren , as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan : and then shall ye return every man unto his possession , which I have given you.
21 And I commanded Joshua at that time , saying , Thine eyes have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings : so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest .
22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.
23 And I besought the LORD at that time , saying ,
24 O Lord GOD , thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness , and thy mighty hand : for what God is there in heaven or in earth , that can do according to thy works , and according to thy might ?
25 I pray thee, let me go over , and see the good land that is beyond Jordan , that goodly mountain , and Lebanon .
26 But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter .
27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah , and lift up thine eyes westward , and northward , and southward , and eastward , and behold it with thine eyes : for thou shalt not go over this Jordan .
28 But charge Joshua , and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people , and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see .
29 So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor .