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King James Version

Deuteronomy 3:5

All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.

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 Sheá¹­aḥ;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the 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.
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 way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. 2 And the Lord said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. 3 So the Lord our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining. 4 And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 5 All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many. 6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city. 7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. 8 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon; 9 (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;) 10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities 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 tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Genesis 3:2
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
Genesis 3:3
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Genesis 3:7
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Genesis 3:10
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
Genesis 3:14
And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Genesis 3:22
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live 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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