Holman Christian Standard Bible

Deuteronomy 3:1-8 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

1. “Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan came out against us with his whole army to do battle at Edrei.

2. But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have handed him over to you along with his whole army and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.’

3. So the Lord our God also handed over Og king of Bashan and his whole army to us. We struck him until there was no survivor left.

4. We captured all his cities at that time. There wasn’t a city that we didn’t take from them: 60 cities, the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

5. All these were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a large number of rural villages.

6. We completely destroyed them, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying the men, women, and children of every city.

7. But we took all the livestock and the spoil from the cities as plunder for ourselves.

8. “At that time we took the land from the two Amorite kings across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon,