31 " Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan , and Og , king of Bashan , with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Edrei . 2 "But the Lord said to me, 'Do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand ; and you shall do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites , who lived at Heshbon .' 3 "So the Lord our God delivered Og also , king of Bashan , with all his people into our hand , and we smote them until no survivor was left . 4 "We captured all his cities at that time ; there was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities , all the region of Argob , the kingdom of Og in Bashan . 5 "All these were cities fortified with high walls , gates and bars , besides e a great many unwalled towns . 6 "We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon , utterly destroying the men , women and children of every city . 7 " But all the animals and the spoil of the cities we took as our booty . 8 " Thus we took the land at that time from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan , from the valley of Arnon to Mount Hermon 9 (Sidonians call Hermon Sirion , and the Amorites call it Senir ): 10 all the cities of the plateau and all Gilead and all Bashan , as far as Salecah and Edrei , cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan . 11 (For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim . Behold , his bedstead was an iron bedstead ; it is in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon . Its length was nine cubits and its width four cubits by ordinary cubit .)
12 "So we took possession of this land at that time . From Aroer , which is by the valley of Arnon , and half the hill country of Gilead and its cities I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites . 13 "The rest of Gilead and all Bashan , the kingdom of Og , I gave to the half-tribe e of Manasseh , all the region of Argob (concerning all Bashan , it is called the land of Rephaim . 14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites , and called it, that is, Bashan , after his own name , Havvoth-jair , as it is to this day .)
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 3:1-14
Commentary on Deuteronomy 3:1-11
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1-11 Og was very powerful, but he did not take warning by the ruin of Sihon, and desire conditions of peace. He trusted his own strength, and so was hardened to his destruction. Those not awakened by the judgments of God on others, ripen for the like judgments on themselves.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 3:12-20
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This country was settled on the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh: see Numbers 32. Moses repeats the condition of the grant to which they agreed. When at rest, we should desire to see our brethren at rest too, and should be ready to do what we can towards it; for we are not born for ourselves, but are members one of another.