Argob (in Bashan)

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• 1KI 4:7–19, engwebp

  ⁷Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for a month in the year.

  ⁸These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;

  ⁹Ben Deker, in Makaz, in Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;

  ¹⁰Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);

  ¹¹Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath, Solomon’s daughter, as wife);

  ¹²Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;

  ¹³Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, belonged to him; and the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars, belonged to him);

  ¹⁴Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

  ¹⁵Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);

  ¹⁶Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;

  ¹⁷Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

  ¹⁸Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

  ¹⁹Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer who was in the land.

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• DEU 3:1–7, engwebp

  ¹Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan. Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

  ²The LORD said to me, “Don’t fear him; for I have delivered him, with all his people and his land, into your hand. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”

  ³So the LORD our God also delivered into our hand Og, the king of Bashan, and all his people. We struck him until no one was left to him remaining.

  ⁴We 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.

  ⁵All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, in addition to a great many villages without walls.

  ⁶We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.

  ⁷But all the livestock, and the plunder of the cities, we took for plunder for ourselves.

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• DEU 3:12–17, engwebp

  ¹²This 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 with its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites;

  ¹³and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh—all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim.

  ¹⁴Jair 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.)

  ¹⁵I gave Gilead to Machir.

  ¹⁶To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

  ¹⁷the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

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