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Deuteronomy 3:5

All these towns had high walls round them with doors and locks; and in addition we took a great number of unwalled towns.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Canaan;   Gates;   Israel;   Og;   Reubenites;   Walls, of the Cities;   Thompson Chain Reference - Cities;   Fenced Cities;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Cities;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Walls;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - City;   Gate;   Og;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ammon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bashan;   City;   Og;   Sihon;   Villages;   Wall;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bashan;   Bashan-Havoth-Jair;   Fenced Cities;   Gate;   Og;   Perizzite;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Og;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fortification and Siegecraft;   Numbers, Book of;   Og;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sihon ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Cities;   Edrei;   Gate;   Hauran;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Argob;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Argob (2);   Bar (2);   City;   Fence;   Gate;   Og;   Perizzite;   Town;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Bashan;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Fortress;   Havoth-Jair;   Simeon ben Sheṭaḥ;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.
King James Version
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
Lexham English Bible
All of these were fortified towns with high walls, gates, and bars, apart from very many of the villages of the open country.
English Standard Version
All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages.
New Century Version
All these were strong cities, with high walls and gates with bars. And there were also many small towns with no walls.
New English Translation
All of these cities were fortified by high walls, gates, and locking bars; in addition there were a great many open villages.
Amplified Bible
"All these cities were fortified and unassailable with their high walls, gates, and bars; in addition, [there were] a very great number of unwalled villages.
New American Standard Bible
"All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many unwalled towns.
Geneva Bible (1587)
All these cities were fenced with hie walles, gates and barres, beside vnwalled townes a great many.
Legacy Standard Bible
All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates and bars, besides a great many unwalled towns.
Complete Jewish Bible
all of them fortified cities with high walls, gates and bars — in addition to a great number of unwalled towns.
Darby Translation
All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns very many.
Easy-to-Read Version
All these cities were very strong. They had high walls, gates, and strong bars on the gates. There were also many towns that did not have walls.
George Lamsa Translation
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the suburban towns a great many.
Good News Translation
All these towns were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars to lock the gates, and there were also many villages without walls.
Christian Standard Bible®
All these were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a large number of rural villages.
Literal Translation
All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates and double-leaved doors, besides a great many of the unwalled towns.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
All these cities were stroge, with hye walles, gates, and barres, besyde many other vnwalled townes.
American Standard Version
All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
All these cities also were made strong with hye walles, gates, & barres, beside vnwalled townes a great meany,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
All these were fortified cities, with high walls, gates, and bars; beside the unwalled towns a great many.
King James Version (1611)
All these cities were fenced with high walles, gates and barres, beside vnwalled townes a great many.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
all strong cities, lofty walls, gates and bars; besides the very many cities of the Pherezites.
English Revised Version
All these were cities fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside the unwalled towns a great many.
Berean Standard Bible
All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Alle the citees weren strengthid with hiyest wallis, and with yatis and barris; with out townes vnnoumbrable, that hadden not wallis.
Young's Literal Translation
All these [are] cities fenced with high walls, two-leaved doors and bar, apart from cities of villages very many;
Update Bible Version
All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.
Webster's Bible Translation
All these cities [were] fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns a great number.
World English Bible
All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.
New King James Version
All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many rural towns.
New Living Translation
These towns were all fortified with high walls and barred gates. We also took many unwalled villages at the same time.
New Life Bible
All these cities were built strong, with high walls, gates and iron. There were many towns without walls also.
New Revised Standard
All these were fortress towns with high walls, double gates, and bars, besides a great many villages.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All these, were fortified cities each with a high wall, folding gates and a bar, - besides country towns exceeding many.
Douay-Rheims Bible
All the cities were fenced with very high walls, and with gates and bars, besides innumerable towns that had no walls.
Revised Standard Version
All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates and bars, besides a great many unwalled towns.

Contextual Overview

1 Then turning we took the road to Bashan: and Og, king of Bashan, came out against us with all his people, and made an attack on us at Edrei. 2 And the Lord said to me, Have no fear of him: for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hands; do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon. 3 So the Lord our God gave up Og, king of Bashan, and all his people into our hands; and we overcame him so completely that all his people came to their end in the fight. 4 At that time we took all his towns; there was not one town of the sixty towns, all the country of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which we did not take. 5 All these towns had high walls round them with doors and locks; and in addition we took a great number of unwalled towns. 6 And we put them to the curse, every town together with men, women, and children. 7 But we took for ourselves all the cattle and the stored wealth of the towns. 8 At that time we took their land from the two kings of the Amorites on the far side of Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon; 9 (By the Sidonians, Hermon is named Sirion, and by the Amorites Shenir;) 10 All the towns of the table-land and all Gilead and Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, towns of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 1:28, Numbers 13:28, Hebrews 11:30

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 9:25 - strong Psalms 103:13 - Like

Cross-References

Genesis 2:17
But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.
Genesis 3:2
And the woman said, We may take of the fruit of the trees in the garden:
Genesis 3:3
But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you.
Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.
Genesis 3:7
And their eyes were open and they were conscious that they had no clothing and they made themselves coats of leaves stitched together.
Genesis 3:10
And he said, Hearing your voice in the garden I was full of fear, because I was without clothing: and I kept myself from your eyes.
Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.
Genesis 3:14
And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life:
Genesis 3:15
And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.
Genesis 3:22
And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go on living for ever.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars,.... That is, all the cities in the kingdom of Bashan; and though they were, it hindered not their falling into the hands of the Israelites; and this might serve to encourage them against those fears they were possessed of by the spies, with respect to the cities in the land of Canaan; see Numbers 13:28

besides unwalled towns a great many; small towns and villages adjacent to the several cities, as is common.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Gates, and bars - literally, “Double gates and a bar.” The stone doors of Bashan, their height pointing to a race of great stature, and the numerous cities (deserted) exist to illustrate the statements of these verses.


 
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