1. Next we turned and went up along the road to Bashan. Og, Bashan’s king, came out with all his forces to meet us in battle at Edrei.
2. The Lord said to me: Don’t be afraid of him! I have handed him, all his forces, and his land over to you. Do the same thing to him that you did to Sihon, the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon.
3. And so the Lord our God also handed Og, Bashan’s king, along with his forces, over to us. We struck them down until no survivor was left.
4. We also captured all of Og’s towns at that time. There wasn’t a single city that we didn’t take from them—a total of sixty towns, the entire region of Argob, the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan.
5. Each of these towns was fortified with high walls, double gates, and crossbars. Outside the towns there were also a great number of villages.
6. We placed them under the ban, just as we did with Sihon, Heshn’s king. Every town—men, women, and children—was under the ban.
7. The only things we kept for ourselves were the animals and the plunder from the towns.
8. So at that time, we took the land that had belonged to the two Amorite kings beyond the Jordan, all the way from the Arnon Ravine to Mount Hermon (
9. Sidonians call Hermon "Sirion," but the Amorites call it "Senir"),
10. including all the towns on the plateau, in the regions of Gilead and Bashan, and all the way to Salecah and Edrei—all the towns that belonged to Og’s kingdom in Bashan.(
11. By the way, Bashan’s King Og was the last of the Rephaim. His bed was made of iron. Isn’t it still in the Ammonite town of Rabbah? By standard measurements, it was thirteen and a half feet long and six feet wide.)
12. So this is the land we possessed at that time. I gave some of it, from Aroer, which is beside the Arnon River, up through half of the Gilead highlands, along with its cities, to the Reubenites and the Gadites.
13. The rest of the Gilead region and all of Bashan, Og’s kingdom, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh.(Now the whole Argob area, including all of Bashan, was often called Rephaim Country.
14. Jair, from the tribe of Manasseh, took possession of the entire Argob region, as far as the border with the Geshurites and the Maacathites. He named the Bashan area after himself, Jair’s Settlement. That’s what it’s still called today.)
15. I also gave Gilead to Machir.