Deuteronomy 3:5
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New International Version (©2011)
All these cities were fortified with high walls and with gates and bars, and there were also a great many unwalled villages.

New Living Translation (©2007)
These towns were all fortified with high walls and barred gates. We also took many unwalled villages at the same time.

English Standard Version (©2001)
All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates and bars, besides a great many unwalled towns.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
All these were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a large number of rural villages.

International Standard Version (©2012)
All of these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars. Furthermore, there were very many unwalled regions.

NET Bible (©2006)
All of these cities were fortified by high walls, gates, and locking bars; in addition there were a great many open villages.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
All of these cities were fortified with high walls and double-door gates with bars across the gates. We also captured a large number of unwalled villages.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns a great many.

American King James Version
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.

American Standard Version
All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All the cities were fenced with very high walls, and with gates and bars, be- sides innumerable towns that had no walls.

Darby Bible Translation
All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns very many.

English Revised Version
All these were cities fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside the unwalled towns a great many.

Webster's Bible Translation
All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns a great number.

World English Bible
All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.

Young's Literal Translation
All these are cities fenced with high walls, two-leaved doors and bar, apart from cities of villages very many;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:1-11 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.br>

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 5. - All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; literally, double gates and a bar. These cities, with their marvelous erections, are believed to be still existing in the Hauran. Over that district tire strewn a multitude of towns of various sizes, all constructed after the same remarkable fashion. "The streets are perfect, the walls perfect, and, what seems more astonish. tug, the stone doors are still hanging on their hinges, so little impression has been made during these many centuries on the hard and durable stone of which they are built" (Graham, Cambridge Essays, p. 160). These doors are "formed of slabs of stone, opening on pivots which are projecting parts of the stone itself, and working in sockets in the lintel and threshold." Some of these gates are large enough to admit of a camel passing through them, and the doors are of proportionate dimensions, some of the stones of which they are formed being eighteen inches in thickness. The roofs also are formed of huge stone slabs resting on the massive walls. All betoken the workmanship of a race endowed with powers far exceeding those of ordinary men; and give credibility to the supposition that we have in them the dwellings of the giant race that occupied that district before it was invaded by the Israelites. "We could not help," says Mr. Graham, "being impressed with the belief that had we never known anything of the early portion of Scripture history before visiting this country, we should have been forced to the conclusion that its original inhabitants, the people who had constructed those cities, were not only a powerful and mighty nation, but individuals of greater strength than ourselves." Ver. 6. - (See Deuteronomy 2:34.)

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars,.... That is, all the cities in the kingdom of Bashan; and though they were, it hindered not their falling into the hands of the Israelites; and this might serve to encourage them against those fears they were possessed of by the spies, with respect to the cities in the land of Canaan; see Numbers 13:28.

besides unwalled towns a great many; small towns and villages adjacent to the several cities, as is common.

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King Og Defeated
…4And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, three score cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 5All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many. 6And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city. …

Deuteronomy 3:4 At that time we took all his cities. There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take from them--the whole region of Argob, Og's kingdom in Bashan.
Deuteronomy 3:6 We completely destroyed them, as we had done with Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying every city--men, women and children.
1 Samuel 6:18 And the number of the gold rats was according to the number of Philistine towns belonging to the five rulers--the fortified towns with their country villages. The large rock on which the Levites set the ark of the LORD is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.
Nehemiah 9:25 They captured fortified cities and fertile land; they took possession of houses filled with all kinds of good things, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves and fruit trees in abundance. They ate to the full and were well-nourished; they reveled in your great goodness.
Esther 9:19 That is why rural Jews--those living in villages--observe the fourteenth of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting, a day for giving presents to each other.