Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of
Bashan (a) came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at
Edrei.
(a) Therefore aside from the commandment of the Lord, they had just
cause to fight against him.... [ Continue Reading ]
All these cities [were] fenced with high walls, gates, and bars;
beside (b) unwalled towns a great many.
(b) As villages and small towns.... [ Continue Reading ]
And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon,
utterly destroying the men, (c) women, and children, of every city.
(c) Because this was God's appointment, therefore it may not be judged
cruel.... [ Continue Reading ]
For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold,
his (d) 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.
(d) The more terrible this giant was,... [ Continue Reading ]
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 (e) this day.
(e) Meaning, when he wrote this history.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 (f) Jabbok, [which is] the border of the children of Ammon;
(f) Which separates the Ammonites from the Amorites.... [ Continue Reading ]
And I commanded (g) 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.
(g) That is, the Reubenites, Gadites, and half Manasseh, as in
(Numbers 32:32).... [ Continue Reading ]
And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all
that the (h) LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall
the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.
(h) So that the victories did not come by your own wisdom, strength or
multitude.... [ Continue Reading ]
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
(i) do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
(i) He speaks according to the common and corrupt speech of those who
attribute power to idols that... [ Continue Reading ]
I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that [is] beyond
Jordan, that goodly (k) mountain, and Lebanon.
(k) He means Zion, where the Temple should be built, and God honoured.... [ Continue Reading ]
Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and (l) 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.
(l) As before he saw by the spirits of prophecy the good mountain
which was Zion: so here his eyes were lifte... [ Continue Reading ]