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Christian Standard Bible ®

Deuteronomy 3:5

All these were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a large number of rural villages.

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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
All these towns had high walls round them with doors and locks; and in addition we took a great number of unwalled towns.
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 we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and King Og of Bashan came out against us with his whole army to do battle at Edrei. 2But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have handed him over to you along with his whole army and his land. Do to him as you did to King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.’ 3So the Lord our God also handed over King Og of Bashan and his whole army to us. We struck him until there was no survivor left. 4We captured all his cities at that time. There wasn’t a city that we didn’t take from them: sixty cities, the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 5All these were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a large number of rural villages. 6We completely destroyed them, as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon, destroying the men, women, and children of every city. 7But we took all the livestock and the spoil from the cities as plunder for ourselves. 8“At that time we took the land from the two Amorite kings across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon, 9which the Sidonians call Sirion, but the Amorites call Senir, 10all the cities of the plateau, Gilead, and Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of Og’s kingdom 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 you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.”
Genesis 3:2
The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden.
Genesis 3:3
But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’”
Genesis 3:6
The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
Genesis 3:10
And he said, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
Genesis 3:13
So the Lord God asked the woman, “What is this you have done?”
Genesis 3:14
So the Lord God said to the serpent:
Genesis 3:15
I will put hostility between you and the woman,and between your offspring and her offspring.He will strike your head,and you will strike his heel.
Genesis 3:22
The Lord God said, “Since the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.”

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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