Then the people of Israel traveled on the road toward Bashan. Og, the king of Bashan, got his army and marched out to meet the people of Israel. He fought against them at Edrei.
The land is sick and dying. Lebanon {\cf2\super [302]} is dying and Sharon Valley {\cf2\super [303]} is dry and empty. Bashan {\cf2\super [304]} and Carmel {\cf2\super [305]} once grew beautiful plants—but now those plants have stopped growing.
They used oak trees from Bashan\par to make your oars.\par They used pine trees from Cyprus\par to make the cabin on your deck. {\cf2\super [219]} \par They decorated that shelter with ivory.\par
You will eat the meat from the bodies of powerful soldiers. You will drink the blood from world leaders. They will be like rams, lambs, goats and fat bulls from Bashan.
Listen to me, you cows of Bashan {\cf2\super [48]} on Samaria’s mountain. You hurt poor people. You crush those poor people. You tell your husbands, {\cf2\super [49]} “Bring us something to drink!”
So Moses gave that land to the people of Gad, to the people of Reuben, and to half of Manasseh’s family group. (Manasseh was Joseph’s son.) That land included the kingdom of Sihon the Amorite and the kingdom of Og, king of Bashan. That land included all the cities around that area.
This was after the Lord defeated Sihon and Og. (Sihon was the king of the Amorite people. Sihon lived in Heshbon. Og was the king of Bashan. Og lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.)
“But Sihon, the king of Heshbon, would not let us pass through his country. The Lord your God had made him very stubborn. The Lord did this so he could let you defeat King Sihon. And today, we know that really happened!
{The Lord gave Israel}
butter from the herd
and milk from the flock.
{He gave Israel} fat lambs and goats,
the best rams from Bashan,
and the finest wheat.
You {people of Israel} drank wine
from the red juice of the grape.
All the kingdom of King Og was in that land. King Og ruled in Bashan. In the past he ruled in Ashtaroth and Edrei. Og was from the Rephaite people. In the past Moses had defeated those people and had taken their land.
The land started at Mahanaim. The land included all of Bashan, all the land ruled by Og, king of Bashan, all the towns of Jair in Bashan. (In all, there were 60 cities.)
And we heard that he defeated the two kings of the Amorite people east of the Jordan River. This was Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, the king of Bashan, in the land of Ashtaroth.