Deuteronomy 3
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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.

Bashan Bashan, one of the most fertile districts of the Holy Land, was bounded on the west by the Jordan and lake of Gennesaret, on the east by Trachonitis, on the south by the brook Habbok, and on the north by mount Hermon; and seems to have been composed of two or three districts, on the south the land of Gilead, on the north the region of Argob, and east of bith??, the lain of Hauran.

Deuteronomy 3:13-15 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, …

The scenery of this elevated tract is described by Mr.Buckingham as extremely beautiful: its plains covered with a fertile soil; its hills covered with forests, and at every new turn presenting the most beautiful landscapes that can be imagined.

Og

Deuteronomy 1:4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelled …

Deuteronomy 4:47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two …

Deuteronomy 29:7 And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og …

Deuteronomy 31:4 And the LORD shall do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings …

Numbers 21:33-35 And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king …

Joshua 9:10 And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond …

Joshua 12:4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the …

Joshua 13:30 And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of …

1 Kings 4:19 Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country …

Nehemiah 9:22 Moreover you gave them kingdoms and nations, and did divide them …

Psalm 135:10,11 Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings…

Psalm 136:20 And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endures for ever:

Edrei This town is placed by Eusebius about

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.
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.
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.
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
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;
(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)

Hermon Mount Hermon is the south-eastern branch of Lebanon, beyond Jordan. The Chaldee Targumist, who places it at Caesarea and Samaritan interpreter call it toor talga, `the mountain of snow,' because of its being always covered with snow; and Jerome informs us, that it lies higher than Paneas or Caesarea Philippi, and that in the summer time snow used to be carried from thence to Tyre. It is now call El Heish, and is comprised in the district of Kanneytra.

Deuteronomy 4:48,49 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even to mount …

Psalm 29:6 He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

Psalm 89:12 The north and the south you have created them: Tabor and Hermon shall …

Psalm 133:3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended on the mountains …

Songs 4:8 Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look …

Shenir

1 Chronicles 5:23 And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelled in the land: …

Ezekiel 27:5 They have made all your ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have …

Senir

All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
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.
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.
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.

the rest

Numbers 32:39-42 And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and …

Joshua 13:29-32 And Moses gave inheritance to the half tribe of Manasseh…

1 Chronicles 5:23-26 And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelled in the land: …

which was called
Michaelis says, `The tradition that giants formerly dwelt in this part, still remains in Arabia, only that it makes them rather taller than Moses does Og, and calls the land in which they lived, not Bashan, but Hadrach, which name occurs in

Zechariah 9:1 The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus …

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.
And I gave Gilead unto Machir.
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;
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.
And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,
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?
I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.

the good land

Deuteronomy 4:21,22 Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore …

Deuteronomy 11:11,12 But the land, where you go to possess it, is a land of hills and …

Exodus 3:8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, …

Numbers 32:5 Why, said they, if we have found grace in your sight, let this land …

Ezekiel 20:6 In the day that I lifted up my hand to them, to bring them forth …

Lebanon Lebanon is a long chain of limestone mountains, extending from near the coast of the Mediterranean on the west to the plains of Damascus on the east, and forming the extreme northern boundary of the Holy Land. It is divided into two principal ridges, running parallel to each other in a north-north-east direction; the most westerly of which was properly called Libanus, and the easterly anti-Libanus: the Hebrews did not make this distinction. It is computed to be fifteen or sixteen hundred fathoms in height. They are by no means barren, but are almost all well cultivated and well peopled; their summits being in many parts level, and forming extensive plains, in which are sown corn and all kinds of pulse. Vineyard, and plantations of olive, mulberry, and fig trees, are also cultivated in terraces formed by walls; and the soil of the declivities and hollows is most excellent, and produces abundance of corn, oil, and wine.

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.
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.
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.
So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
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