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Deuteronomy 3:1

in Deuteronomy 3

Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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, unto battle at Edrei.

KJV

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.

This verse in Deuteronomy 3

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan

on Deuteronomy 3:1-3

The account runs close to Numbers 21:33-35, down to the words "Do not fear him" and the charge to treat Og as Sihon. Here Moses tells it in the second person to the children of the men who died in the wilderness, handing the battle over as evidence. Edrei sat at the southern edge of Bashan, and Og left his walls to meet Israel there.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

It was wonderful that he did not take warning by the ruin of Sihon, and send to desire conditions of peace; but he trusted to his own strength, and so was hardened to his destruction. Note, Those that are not awakened by the judgments of God upon others, but persist in their defiance of heaven, are ripening apace for the like judgments upon themselves, Jer. iii.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

we turned, and went up the way to Bashan--Bashan ("fruitful" or "flat"), now El-Bottein, lay situated to the north of Gilead and extended as far as Hermon. It was a rugged mountainous country, valuable however for its rich and luxuriant pastures.

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How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

ונפן ונעל AND WE TURNED AND WENT UP — every journey towards the north (from the wilderness towards Canaan) is “uphill”.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Deuteronomy 3:1:1, via Sefaria, Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 7 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַנֵּ֣פֶןand we turned

    vanefenH6437 →135 times

  • וַנַּ֔עַלand we went up

    vanaalH5927 →890 times

  • דֶּ֖רֶךְ[the] way of

    derekhH1870 →707 times

  • הַבָּשָׁ֑ן<the> Bashan

    habashanH1316 →60 times

  • וַיֵּצֵ֣אand he came forth

    vaiyetze'H3318 →1067 times

  • עוֹג֩Og

    ʾogH5747 →22 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H4428 →2525 times

  • הַבָּשָׁ֨ן<the> Bashan

    habashanH1316 →60 times

  • לִקְרָאתֵ֜נוּto meet us

    likratenuH7122 →139 times

  • ה֧וּאhe

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • עַמּ֛וֹpeople his

    amoH5971 →1873 times

  • לַמִּלְחָמָ֖הfor <the> battle

    lamilchamahH4421 →320 times

  • אֶדְרֶֽעִי׃Edrei

    ʾedreiH154 →8 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 1:4

    This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and then at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 21:21–35

      Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Joshua 12:2–6

      Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along the middle of the valley, up to the Jabbok River (the border of…

    • Joshua 13:10–12

      and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the Ammonites;

    • Deuteronomy 2:26

      So from the Wilderness of Kedemoth I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon, saying,

    • Nehemiah 9:22

      You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.

  • Through

    Psalms 136:20

    and Og king of Bashan— His loving devotion endures forever.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 21:33

      Then they turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet them in battle at Edrei.

    • Deuteronomy 3:1–29

      Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 29:7

    When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 2:24

      “Arise, set out, and cross the Arnon Valley. See, I have delivered into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in…

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.