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Deuteronomy 3:4

in Deuteronomy 3

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.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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This verse in Deuteronomy 3

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

All the region of Argob - כל חבל ארגב col chebel Argob, all the cable or cord of Argob; this expression, which is used in various other parts of Scripture, (see, in the original, Amo 7:17; Mic 2:5; Deu 32:9; Psa 16:6), shows that anciently land was measured by lines or cords of a certain length, in a similar way to that by the chain among us, and the schoenus or cord among the Egyptians. Some think that it was the region of Argob that was afterwards called the region of Trachonites.

This site's exposition

we took all his cities

on Deuteronomy 3:4-7

Threescore cities fall, all of them fenced with high walls, gates, and bars. The generation that refused the land had reported cities walled up to heaven at Numbers 13:28, and their children take sixty such cities before they reach Jordan. Verse 6 gives the extent of the destruction in plain words, the men, women, and children of every city, on the pattern already set at Heshbon in 2:34, while the cattle and the spoil of the cities were kept.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And we took all his cities at that time,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Argob was the capital of a district in Bashan of the same name, which, together with other fifty-nine cities in the same province, were conspicuous for their lofty and fortified walls. It was a war of extermination.
Threescore cities - Probably the cities of Jair in Bashan described in Deu 3:14 as Bashan-havoth-jair. All the region of Argob - The Hebrew word here rendered “region,” means literally “rope” or “cable”; and though undoubtedly used elsewhere in a general topographical sense for portion or district (e. g. Jos 17:5), has a special propriety in reference to Argob (mod. Lejah). The name Argob means “stone-heap,” and is paraphrased by the Targums, Trachonitis Luk 3:1, or “the rough country;” titles designating the more striking features of the district. Its borders are compared to a rugged shore-line; hence, its description in the text as “the girdle of the stony country,” would seem especially appropriate. (Others identify Argob with the east quarter of the Hauran.)

The words behind it

21 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.

  • וַנִּלְכֹּ֤דand we captured

    vanilkodH3920 →121 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • עָרָיו֙cities his

    ʾaravH5892 →1090 times

  • בָּעֵ֣תat the time

    baetH6256 →296 times

  • הַהִ֔וא<the> that

    hahiv'H1931 →1879 times

  • לֹ֤אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • הָֽיְתָה֙it was

    hayetahH1961 →3559 times

  • קִרְיָ֔הa town

    kiryahH7151 →

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • לֹא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • לָקַ֖חְנוּwe took

    lakachnuH3947 →966 times

  • מֵֽאִתָּ֑םfrom with <the> them

    meitamH854 →929 times

  • שִׁשִּׁ֥יםsixty

    shishimH8346 →

  • עִיר֙citi[es]

    ʾirH5892 →1090 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • חֶ֣בֶל[the] region of

    chevelH2256 →62 times

  • אַרְגֹּ֔בArgob

    ʾargoH709 →5 times

  • מַמְלֶ֥כֶת[the] kingdom of

    mamlekhetH4467 →117 times

  • ע֖וֹגOg

    ogH5747 →22 times

  • בַּבָּשָֽׁן׃in <the> Bashan

    babashanH1316 →60 times

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

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

1 Kings 4:13Ben-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);5 worksJoshua 13:30–31The 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;2 worksJoshua 12:4And Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.2 worksNumbers 32:33–42So 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.2 worksIsaiah 33:9The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.2 works

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

    Joshua 12:4

    And Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.

    it leads to

    • 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.

    • Numbers 21:33–35

      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.

    • Joshua 13:12

      the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who had reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei and had remained as a remnant of the Rephaim. Moses had struck them down and dispossessed them,

    • Deuteronomy 3:10–11

      all the cities of the plateau, all of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far as the cities of Salecah and Edrei in the kingdom of Og.

    • Deuteronomy 3:1–7

      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

    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);

    it leads to

    • Numbers 32:41

      Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.

    • 1 Kings 22:3

      who said to his servants, “Do you not know that Ramoth-gilead is ours, but we have failed to take it from the hand of the king of Aram?”

    • Deuteronomy 4:43

      Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau belonging to the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead belonging to the Gadites, or Golan in Bashan belonging to the Manassites.

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 3 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); 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) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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