Deuteronomy 3:4 BSB

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.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

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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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (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.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

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.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַנִּלְכֹּ֤ד	va.nil.Kod	and we captured	H3920 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
עָרָיו֙	'a.Rav	cities his	H5892 →
בָּעֵ֣ת	ba.'Et	at the time	H6256 →
הַהִ֔וא	ha.Hiv'	<the> that	H1931 →
לֹ֤א	lo'	not	H3808 →
הָֽיְתָה֙	ha.ye.Tah	it was	H1961 →
קִרְיָ֔ה	kir.Yah	a town	H7151 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
לָקַ֖חְנוּ	la.Kach.nu	we took	H3947 →
מֵֽאִתָּ֑ם	me.'i.Tam	from with <the> them	H854 →
שִׁשִּׁ֥ים	shi.Shim	sixty	H8346 →
עִיר֙	'ir	citi[es]	H5892 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
חֶ֣בֶל	Che.vel	[the] region of	H2256 →
אַרְגֹּ֔ב	'ar.Go	Argob	H709 →
מַמְלֶ֥כֶת	mam.Le.khet	[the] kingdom of	H4467 →
ע֖וֹג	og	Og	H5747 →
בַּבָּשָֽׁן׃	ba.ba.Shan	in <the> Bashan	H1316 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Joshua 12:4
And Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.
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);
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.