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New Living Translation

Deuteronomy 3:5

These towns were all fortified with high walls and barred gates. We also took many unwalled villages at the same time.

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.
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 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 "Next we turned and headed for the land of Bashan, where King Og and his entire army attacked us at Edrei. 2 But the Lord told me, ‘Do not be afraid of him, for I have given you victory over Og and his entire army, and I will give you all his land. Treat him just as you treated King Sihon of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon.' 3 "So the Lord our God handed King Og and all his people over to us, and we killed them all. Not a single person survived. 4 We conquered all sixty of his towns—the entire Argob region in his kingdom of Bashan. Not a single town escaped our conquest. 5 These towns were all fortified with high walls and barred gates. We also took many unwalled villages at the same time. 6 We completely destroyed the kingdom of Bashan, just as we had destroyed King Sihon of Heshbon. We destroyed all the people in every town we conquered—men, women, and children alike. 7 But we kept all the livestock for ourselves and took plunder from all the towns. 8 "So we took the land of the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan River—all the way from the Arnon Gorge to Mount Hermon. 9 (Mount Hermon is called Sirion by the Sidonians, and the Amorites call it Senir.) 10 We had now conquered all the cities on the plateau and all Gilead and Bashan, as far as the towns of Salecah and Edrei, which were part 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
except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die."
Genesis 3:2
"Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden," the woman replied.
Genesis 3:3
"It's only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.'"
Genesis 3:6
The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too.
Genesis 3:7
At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.
Genesis 3:10
He replied, "I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked."
Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God asked the woman, "What have you done?" "The serpent deceived me," she replied. "That's why I ate it."
Genesis 3:14
Then the Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all animals, domestic and wild. You will crawl on your belly, groveling in the dust as long as you live.
Genesis 3:15
And I will cause 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
Then the Lord God said, "Look, the human beings have become like us, knowing both good and evil. What if they reach out, take fruit from the tree of life, and eat it? Then they will 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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