But יהוה said to me: Do not fear him, for I am delivering him and all his troops and his country into your power, and you will do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.
At that time we captured all his towns; there was not a town that we did not take from them: sixty towns, the whole district of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan—
Only King Og of Bashan was left of the remaining Rephaim. His bedstead, an iron bedstead, is now in Rabbah of the Ammonites; it is nine cubits long and four cubits wide, by the standard cubit! “the cubit of a man.” See the Dictionary under ’ish.
Translation Notes
*standard cubit — Lit. “forearm of a [typical] participant,” trad.
Verses 12–13 proceed from south to north; vv. 14–16 from north to south. And this is the land which we apportioned at that time: The part from Aroer along the wadi Arnon, with part of the hill country of Gilead and its towns, I assigned to the Reubenites and the Gadites.
The rest of Gilead, and all of Bashan under Og’s rule—the whole Argob district, all that part of Bashan which is called Rephaim country—I assigned to the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Jair son of Manasseh received the whole Argob district (that is, Bashan) as far as the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and named it after himself: Havvoth-jair Havvoth-jair I.e., “villages of Jair.” —as is still the case.
And to the Reubenites and the Gadites I assigned the part from Gilead down to the wadi Arnon, the middle of the wadi being the boundary, and up to the wadi Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites.
Continuing vv. 8–10; cf. 4.47–49. [We also seized] the Arabah, from the foot of the slopes of Pisgah on the east, to the edge of the Jordan, and from Chinnereth down to the sea of the Arabah, the Dead Sea.
At that time I charged you [men of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh], saying, “Your God יהוה has given you this country to possess. You must go as shock-troops, warriors all, at the head of your Israelite kin.
until יהוה has granted your kin a haven such as you have, and they too have taken possession of the land that your God יהוה is assigning them, beyond the Jordan. Then you may return each to the homestead that I have assigned to him.”
I also charged Joshua at that time, saying, “You have seen with your own eyes all that your God יהוה has done to these two kings; so shall יהוה do to all the kingdoms into which you shall cross over.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואתיהושוע
804
צויתי
516
בעת
472
ההוא
17
לאמר
271
עיניך
160
הראת
606
את
401
כלאשר
551
עשה
375
יהוה
26
אלהיכם
106
לשני
390
המלכים
145
האלה
41
כןיעשה
455
יהוה
26
לכלהממלכות
621
אשר
501
אתה
406
עבר
272
שמה
345
Deuteronomy 3:22
Gematria: 1145
לאתיראוםכייהוהאלהיכםהואהנלחםלכםס
Do not fear them, for it is your God יהוה who will battle for you.”
“O Lord יהוה, You who let Your servant see the first works of Your greatness and Your mighty hand, You whose powerful deeds no god in heaven or on earth can equal!
Go up to the summit of Pisgah and gaze about, to the west, the north, the south, and the east. Look at it well, for you shall not go across yonder Jordan.
Give Joshua his instructions, and imbue him with strength and courage, for he shall go across at the head of this people, and he shall allot to them the land that you may only see.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
וצו
102
אתיהושע
792
וחזקהו
132
ואמצהו
148
כיהוא
42
יעבר
282
לפני
170
העם
115
הזה
17
והוא
18
ינחיל
108
אותם
447
אתהארץ
697
אשר
501
תראה
606
Deuteronomy 3:29
Gematria: 1298
ונשבבגיאמולביתפעורפ
Meanwhile we stayed on in the valley near Beth-peor.