Deuteronomy 3:5

All the cities were fenced with very high walls, and with gates and bars, be- sides innumerable towns that had no walls.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.

In Context

4Wasting all his cities at one time, there was not a town that escaped us: sixty cities, all the country of Argob the kingdom of Og in Basan.

6And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to Sehon the king of Hesebon, destroying every city, men and women and children:

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Cross References

Numbers 13:28And they related and said: We came into the land to which thou sentest us, which in very deed floweth with milk and honey as may be known by these fruits:

Hebrews 11:30By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, by the going round them seven days.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 3:2-12

Sihon and Og Subdued. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 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. 2 And the Lord said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. 3 So the Lord our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was… Read the whole commentary →

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