Apr.
24
Deuteronomy
3, 4
Deu
3:1 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.
Deu
3:2 Yahweh said to me, Don't fear him; for I have delivered him, and
all his people, and his land, into your hand; and you shall do to him
as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.
Deu
3:3 So Yahweh our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of
Bashan, and all his people: and we struck him until none was left to
him remaining.
Deu
3:4 We took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which
we didn't take from them; sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the
kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Deu
3:5 All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and
bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.
Deu
3:6 We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon,
utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the
little ones.
Deu
3:7 But all the livestock, and the spoil of the cities, we took for
a prey to ourselves.
Deu
3:8 We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings
of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the
Arnon to Mount Hermon;
Deu
3:9 (which
Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir;)
Deu
3:10 all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to
Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Deu
3:11 (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the
Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; isn't it in
Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was its length, and four
cubits its breadth, after the cubit of a man.)
Deu
3:12 This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which
is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead,
and its cities, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites:
Deu
3:13 and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave
I to the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, even all
Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim.
Deu
3:14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the
border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even
Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.)
Deu
3:15 I gave Gilead to Machir.
Deu
3:16 To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to
the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border of
it, even to the river Jabbok, which is
the border of the children of Ammon;
Deu
3:17 the Arabah also, and the Jordan and the border of
it, from Chinnereth even to the sea of
the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
Deu
3:18 I commanded you at that time, saying, Yahweh your God has given
you this land to possess it: you shall pass over armed before your
brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor.
Deu
3:19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I
know that you have much livestock), shall abide in your cities which
I have given you,
Deu
3:20 until Yahweh gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they
also possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the
Jordan: then you shall return every man to his possession, which I
have given you.
Deu
3:21 I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen
all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings: so shall Yahweh
do to all the kingdoms where you go over.
Deu
3:22 You shall not fear them; for Yahweh your God, he it is who
fights for you.
Deu
3:23 I begged Yahweh at that time, saying,
Deu
3:24 Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your
greatness, and your strong hand: for what god is there in heaven or
in earth, that can do according to your works, and according to your
mighty acts?
Deu
3:25 Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the
Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Deu
3:26 But Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and didn't listen
to me; and Yahweh said to me, Let it suffice you; speak no more to me
of this matter.
Deu
3:27 Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and
northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes: for
you shall not go over this Jordan.
Deu
3:28 But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him;
for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to
inherit the land which you shall see.
Deu
3:29 So we abode in the valley over against Beth Peor.
Deu
4:1 Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which
I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the
land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
Deu
4:2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall
you diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh
your God which I command you.
Deu
4:3 Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for
all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed
them from the midst of you.
Deu
4:4 But you who did cling to Yahweh your God are all alive this day.
Deu
4:5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as
Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the
land where you go in to possess it.
Deu
4:6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your
understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these
statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and
understanding people.
Deu
4:7 For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them,
as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
Deu
4:8 What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so
righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Deu
4:9 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest
you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from
your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your
children and your children's children;
Deu
4:10 the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when
Yahweh said to me, Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear
my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live
on the earth, and that they may teach their children.
Deu
4:11 You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain
burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and
thick darkness.
Deu
4:12 Yahweh spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the
voice of words, but you saw no form; only you
heard a voice.
Deu
4:13 He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to
perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables
of stone.
Deu
4:14 Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and
ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to
possess it.
Deu
4:15 Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no manner
of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst
of the fire.
Deu
4:16 Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved
image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Deu
4:17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness
of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
Deu
4:18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the
likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
Deu
4:19 and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the
sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are
drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God
has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
Deu
4:20 But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron
furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at
this day.
Deu
4:21 Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore
that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to
that good land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance:
Deu
4:22 but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but
you shall go over, and possess that good land.
Deu
4:23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh
your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in
the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
Deu
4:24 For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
Deu
4:25 When you shall father children, and children's children, and
you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves,
and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that
which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, to provoke him to
anger;
Deu
4:26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that
you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over
the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but
shall utterly be destroyed.
Deu
4:27 Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be
left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh shall lead you
away.
Deu
4:28 There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and
stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Deu
4:29 But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall
find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all
your soul.
Deu
4:30 When you are in oppression, and all these things are come on
you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and
listen to his voice:
Deu
4:31 for Yahweh your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you,
neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he
swore to them.
Deu
4:32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you,
since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end
of the sky to the other, whether there has been any
such thing as this great thing is, or
has been heard like it?
Deu
4:33 Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the
midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
Deu
4:34 Or has God tried to go and take him a nation from the midst of
another
nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a
mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors,
according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before
your eyes?
Deu
4:35 It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God.
There is no one else besides him.
Deu
4:36 Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might
instruct you: and on earth he made you to see his great fire; and you
heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
Deu
4:37 Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed
after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great
power, out of Egypt;
Deu
4:38 to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than
you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as
at this day.
Deu
4:39 Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that Yahweh
he is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is none
else.
Deu
4:40 You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I
command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your
children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land,
which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.
Deu
4:41 Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the
sunrise;
Deu
4:42 that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor
unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one
of these cities he might live:
Deu
4:43 namely,
Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites;
and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the
Manassites.
Deu
4:44 This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
Deu
4:45 these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the
ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, when they
came forth out of Egypt,
Deu
4:46 beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth Peor, in the
land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses
and the children of Israel struck, when they came forth out of Egypt.
Deu
4:47 They took his land in possession, and the land of Og king of
Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan
toward the sunrise;
Deu
4:48 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon,
even to Mount Sion (the same is Hermon),
Deu
4:49 and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea
of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.