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3-6 The Lord our God helped us destroy Og and his army and conquer his entire kingdom of Bashan, including the Argob region. His kingdom had lots of villages and 60 towns with high walls and gates that locked with bars. We completely destroyed[a] them all, killing everyone,

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  1. 3.3-6 completely destroyed: The Hebrew word means that the town was given completely to the Lord, and since it could not be used for normal purposes any more, it had to be destroyed. Every person was killed and sometimes all the animals as well.

So the Lord our God also gave into our hands Og king of Bashan and all his army. We struck them down,(A) leaving no survivors.(B) At that time we took all his cities.(C) There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take from them—the whole region of Argob, Og’s kingdom(D) in Bashan.(E) All these cities were fortified with high walls and with gates and bars, and there were also a great many unwalled villages.

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