“I commanded you at that time: ‘The Lord your God has given you this land to take possession of it. But all your able-bodied men, armed for battle, must cross over ahead of the other Israelites.  However, your wives, your children and your livestock (I know you have much livestock) may stay in the towns I […]

“Of the land that we took over at that time, I gave the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory north of Aroer by the Arnon Gorge, including half the hill country of Gilead, together with its towns.The rest of Gilead and also all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of […]

“Og king of Bashan was the last survivor of the Refa’im. His bed was made of iron; it is still in Rabbah with the people of ‘Amon. It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide, using the normal cubit [thirteen-and-a-half by six feet.“-Deuteronomy 3:11 In verse 11 of Deuteronomy Chapter 3, we’re given a […]

“Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and ‘Og the king of Bashan came out against us with all his people to fight at Edre‘i.  Adonai said to me, ‘Don’t be afraid of him; for I have handed him, all his people and his territory over to you; you will do to […]

Today we begin Deuteronomy Chapter Three. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. The beginning of Deuteronomy 3 is essentially a retelling of the events that took place in Numbers 21 which was when Israel conquered Og. Why is Moses going over all of these events again in […]