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Deuteronomy 3:4
At that time we captured all sixty of his cities. There was not a single city we failed to take—the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses speaks to the second generation of Israelites on the plains of Moab, recounting the immediate aftermath of the campaign against Og king of Bashan. He uses the first-person plural "we" to place the current listeners within the ancestral military narrative.
The words — וַ/נִּלְכֹּ֤ד (va./nil.Kod) means "and we captured," and כָּל־ (kol-) means "all." These terms anchor the verse's claim to the complete seizure of the sixty cities.
The thread — The territory of Argob and Og’s kingdom appears in Numbers 32:33 as allotment land, in Joshua 12:4 as the domain of a Remnant of the Rephaim, and in 1 Kings 4:13 as the region of Jair’s villages. These citations trace the geographical and administrative continuity of the conquest.
Why it lands — The text requires the reader to record the exhaustive scope of the campaign before evaluating its theological implications. It demands acknowledgment that the conquest left no city unseized, establishing a factual baseline for Israel’s territorial inheritance.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- 1 Kings 4:13 Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead belonged to him, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);
- Numbers 32:33 So Moses gave to the Gadites, to the Reubenites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan—the land including its cities and the territory surrounding them.
- Joshua 12:4 And Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.
- Joshua 13:30 The territory from Mahanaim through all Bashan—all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, including all the towns of Jair that are in Bashan, sixty cities;