Deuteronomy 3:5
in Deuteronomy 3All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.
KJV
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 3
Commentary
5 notes on this verseAll these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars,.... That is, all the cities in the kingdom of Bashan; and though they were, it hindered not their falling into the hands of the Israelites; and this might serve to encourage them against those fears they were possessed of by the spies, with respect to the cities in the land of Canaan; see Num 13:28. besides unwalled towns a great many; small towns and villages adjacent to the several cities, as is common.
This site's exposition
we captured all sixty of his cities
on Deuteronomy 3:4-7
All sixty cities fall, "fortified with high walls and gates and bars". The generation that refused the land had reported cities "large and fortified" at Numbers 13:28, and their children take sixty such cities.
This site's exposition
fortified with high walls and gates and bars
Besides the walled cities there were many unwalled villages, so the region was thickly settled. Albert Barnes renders gates and bars as double gates and a bar. He points to the stone doors and deserted towns of Bashan still standing in his day as illustration.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Yet all this was nothing before God's Israel, when they came with commission to destroy him. He was very bold and daring: He came out against Israel to battle,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Gates, and bars - literally, “Double gates and a bar.” The stone doors of Bashan, their height pointing to a race of great stature, and the numerous cities (deserted) exist to illustrate the statements of these verses.
The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| אֵ֜לֶּה | ʾeleh | these | H428 → | 746 times |
| עָרִ֧ים | ʾarim | [were] cities | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| בְּצֻר֛וֹת | betzurot | fortified | H1219 → | 37 times |
| חוֹמָ֥ה | chomah | wall | H2346 → | |
| גְבֹהָ֖ה | gevohah | high | H1364 → | |
| דְּלָתַ֣יִם | delatayim | gates | H1817 → | |
| וּבְרִ֑יחַ | uveriach | and bar[s] | H1280 → | |
| לְבַ֛ד | levad | <to> apart | H905 → | 200 times |
| מֵעָרֵ֥י | mearei | from [the] cities of | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| הַפְּרָזִ֖י | haperazi | the hamlet-dweller[s] | H6521 → | |
| הַרְבֵּ֥ה | harbeh | many | H7235 → | 227 times |
| מְאֹֽד׃ | meod | very | H3966 → | 300 times |
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
אֵ֜לֶּהthese
ʾelehH428 →746 times
עָרִ֧ים[were] cities
ʾarimH5892 →1090 times
בְּצֻר֛וֹתfortified
betzurotH1219 →37 times
חוֹמָ֥הwall
chomahH2346 →
גְבֹהָ֖הhigh
gevohahH1364 →
דְּלָתַ֣יִםgates
delatayimH1817 →
וּבְרִ֑יחַand bar[s]
uveriachH1280 →
לְבַ֛ד<to> apart
levadH905 →200 times
מֵעָרֵ֥יfrom [the] cities of
meareiH5892 →1090 times
הַפְּרָזִ֖יthe hamlet-dweller[s]
haperaziH6521 →
הַרְבֵּ֥הmany
harbehH7235 →227 times
מְאֹֽד׃very
meodH3966 →300 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Numbers 13:28Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 9:1–2
Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 1:28
Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw…
- Joshua 11:22
No Anakim were left in the land of the Israelites; only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod did any survive.
- Numbers 13:33
We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”
- Deuteronomy 9:1–2
Through
Hebrews 11:30By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days.
it leads to
- Joshua 6:3–20
March around the city with all the men of war, circling the city one time. Do this for six days.
- 2 Corinthians 10:4–5
The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
- Joshua 6:3–20
Through
Deuteronomy 1:28Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw…
it leads to
- Numbers 13:28–33
Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
- Joshua 14:8
Although my brothers who went with me made the hearts of the people melt with fear, I remained loyal to the LORD my God.
- Numbers 13:28–33
Where this verse is studied
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About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.