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**Bashan.** Compare [Numbers 21:33](../../../kjv/numbers/21/33) , [Numbers 21:34](../../../kjv/numbers/21/34) .
**came out.** Og was the aggressor. [Numbers 21:33](../../../kjv/numbers/21/33) .

**the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**said.** See note on [Deuteronomy 2:9](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/2/9) .
**hand.** Some codices, with three early printed editions, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "hands".
**as** = according as.

**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 . del
**i** vered. Compare [Deuteronomy 2:36](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/2/36) .

**threescore cities.** They can all be seen, and counted today. (See Dr. Porter's *Giant Cities of Bashan* .)
**region.** Hebrew = "cord". Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause), App-6 , for the region marked out by it.
**Argob.** Compare [1 Kings 4:13](../../../kjv/1-kings/4/13) .[Psalms 136:18-22](../../../kjv/psalms/136/18-22)

**cities.** See note on [Deuteronomy 3:4](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/3/4) .

**destroyed . . . destroying** = devoted to destruction. Hebrew. *haram* . Compare [Deuteronomy 7:2](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/7/2) .
**men.** Hebrew. *methim* = adult males. App-14 .
**women.** Some codices, with The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and the women".

**spoil.** For laws regulating this, see [Numbers 31](../../../kjv/numbers/31) .

**on this side** = across, a neutral term. See note on [Deuteronomy 1:1](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/1/1) .
**unto.** Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "and (or even) unto".
**Hermon** = high mountain.

**Which.** Note these topographical parentheses, verses: [Deuteronomy 3:9](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/3/9) , [Deuteronomy 3:11](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/3/11) , [Deuteronomy 3:14](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/3/14) , Compare [Deuteronomy 2:20-23](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/2/20-23) , [Deuteronomy 2:29](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/2/29) .
**Sirion** = breastplate.
**Shenir** = coat of mail.

**Gilead** = the rough country.

**giants.** Hebrew " *Rephaim* ", descendants of one Rapha, a branch of the *Nephilim* . See App-25 .
**behold.** A special various reading called *Sevir* (see App-34 ) reads "and behold".
**bedstead** = bed or couch, but not the usual word which is *mishkab* . It is ' *eres* , and is exactly the same measurement as the tomb of Marduk in Babylon. The mythological significance of *'eres* (Bab. *irsu)* is nuptial bed, or funeral couch. Probably = tomb.
**iron.** Probably basalt.
**is it not. ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis* ( App-6 ), f'or emphasis.
**Rabbath** was the capital of Ammon, where the temple of Milchom was: and where Og's tomb would naturally be.
**children** = sons.
**cubits.** See App-51 .
**cubit of a man** = a common cubit = a man's forearm.

**at that time.** Compare [Numbers 32:33](../../../kjv/numbers/32/33) ; [Numbers 21:24](../../../kjv/numbers/21/24) .[Joshua 12:1-6](../../../kjv/joshua/12/1-6) ; [Joshua 13:8-12](../../../kjv/joshua/13/8-12) , [Joshua 13:15-32](../../../kjv/joshua/13/15-32) .

**coasts** = borders.
**Bashan-havoth-jair** = the villages (or cluster of villages) of Jair in Bashan. Hebrew. *Havoth* = towns, used only of Jair's. Compare [Numbers 32:41](../../../kjv/numbers/32/41) .[Joshua 13:30](../../../kjv/joshua/13/30) . Jdg 10:4 . [1 Kings 4:13](../../../kjv/1-kings/4/13) . [1 Chronicles 2:23](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/2/23) .
**unto this day:** unto the time of writing. Here the time mentioned is from [Numbers 21](../../../kjv/numbers/21) to the eleventh month of the fortieth year ([Deuteronomy 1:3](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/1/3) ).

**Chinnereth.** Afterward called Gennesaret, compare [Numbers 34:11](../../../kjv/numbers/34/11) .[Joshua 19:35](../../../kjv/joshua/19/35) . So called from its shape, *kinnor* , a harp.
**the plain.** Hebrew. *'Arabah* . See [Deuteronomy 1:1](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/1/1) .
**Ashdoth-pisgah** = the springs of Pisgah. Note the Figure of speech Polyonymia ( App-6 ) in this verse.

**I commanded.** See [Numbers 32:20-24](../../../kjv/numbers/32/20-24) .
**meet for the war.** Hebrew = sons of valour. Figure of speech *Antimereia* (of Noun), App-6 = valiant men. Emphasis on valiant. Compare [2 Samuel 2:7](../../../kjv/2-samuel/2/7) . [1 Kings 1:52](../../../kjv/1-kings/1/52) .

**return.** Compare [Joshua 22:4](../../../kjv/joshua/22/4) .

**not fear.** Compare [Deuteronomy 1:29](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/1/29) , [Deuteronomy 1:30](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/1/30) . Ex. [Deuteronomy 14:13](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/14/13) , [Deuteronomy 14:14](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/14/14) .

**Lord GOD** = *Adonai J* ' *ehovah* . See App-4 . This prayer not mentioned elsewhere.
**hand.** Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause), put for works wrought by the hand.

**the good land.** Compare [Psalms 106:24](../../../kjv/psalms/106/24) .[Numbers 13:27](../../../kjv/numbers/13/27) .

**wroth.** See [Numbers 20:12](../../../kjv/numbers/20/12) .
**said.** See note on [Deuteronomy 2:9](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/2/9) .

**westward, &c.** The points of the compass here are seaward, darkness-ward, Teman-ward, and sunrise-ward. Teman-ward (i.e. south of Edom) first used for south in [Exodus 26:18](../../../kjv/exodus/26/18) . See [Numbers 27:12](../../../kjv/numbers/27/12) .
**and.** Note the Figure of speech *Polysyndeton,* App-6 , emphasizing the extent of the view. not go over. Compare [Numbers 27:13](../../../kjv/numbers/27/13) .

**charge Joshua.** Compare [Numbers 27:18](../../../kjv/numbers/27/18) , [Numbers 27:19](../../../kjv/numbers/27/19) .

**Beth-peor** = the house (or temple) of Peor, where Baal was worshipped ([Numbers 23:28](../../../kjv/numbers/23/28) ; [Numbers 25:3](../../../kjv/numbers/25/3) .[Numbers 4:3](../../../kjv/numbers/4/3) , Here Moses was buried ([Deuteronomy 34:6](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/34/6) ). It was a Moabite holy place ([Numbers 25:18](../../../kjv/numbers/25/18) ; Num 25:31 , [Numbers 25:16](../../../kjv/numbers/25/16) . [Joshua 22:17](../../../kjv/joshua/22/17) ). Allotted to Reuben ([Joshua 13:20](../../../kjv/joshua/13/20) ).

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