Deuteronomy 3:5

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4And 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.

6And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every city, the men, and the women, and the little ones.

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Cross References

Numbers 13:28Howbeit the people that dwell in the land are fierce, and the cities are fortified, and very great; and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

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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