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  "id": "sihon-and-og",
  "part": {
    "id": "first-address",
    "title": "First address: what the LORD has done",
    "summary": "Moses retells the journey from Horeb to Moab and calls Israel to hold fast to the LORD (1:6–4:43)."
  },
  "title": "Sihon and Og",
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  "summary": "When Sihon, king of Heshbon, refused Israel passage, the LORD gave him and his land into their hands, from the Arnon to Gilead. Then Og, king of Bashan, came out to fight at Edrei and was defeated, and his sixty cities were taken. Og was the last of the Rephaim; his iron bed could still be seen in Rabbah.",
  "recalls": [
    {
      "event": "heshbon",
      "range": [
        5002024,
        5002037
      ],
      "note": "The battle at Jahaz and Sihon’s land.",
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 2:24–37",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%202%3A24%E2%80%9337&version=BSB",
      "eventTitle": "Across the Arnon",
      "eventUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/heshbon/"
    },
    {
      "event": "bashan",
      "range": [
        5003001,
        5003011
      ],
      "note": "The battle at Edrei and Og’s kingdom.",
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 3:1–11",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%203%3A1%E2%80%9311&version=BSB",
      "eventTitle": "North into Bashan",
      "eventUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/bashan/"
    }
  ],
  "ahead": [
    {
      "range": [
        6002009,
        6002011
      ],
      "note": "Rahab tells the spies that Jericho heard what Israel did to Sihon and Og.",
      "event": "rahab-and-spies",
      "reference": "Joshua 2:9–11",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua%202%3A9%E2%80%9311&version=BSB",
      "eventTitle": "Rahab shelters the spies",
      "eventUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/rahab-and-spies/"
    },
    {
      "range": [
        19136017,
        19136022
      ],
      "note": "The psalm praises God for Sihon and Og.",
      "reference": "Psalm 136:17–22",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20136%3A17%E2%80%9322&version=BSB"
    }
  ],
  "questions": [
    "How would these first victories prepare Israel to trust God across the Jordan?"
  ],
  "studyId": "deuteronomy",
  "studyTitle": "Deuteronomy",
  "intro": "Deuteronomy records Moses’ last speeches to the new generation of Israel on the plains of Moab, in the fortieth year after the Exodus (1:3). It looks back over the journey from Egypt and Horeb and forward to life in the land, calling Israel to love the LORD and remember what he has done. Each section below lists what Moses recalls, with links to those events on the timeline, and where the rest of Scripture takes up the passage.",
  "setting": {
    "era": "exodus-wilderness",
    "place": "region-moab",
    "date": {
      "kind": "approximate",
      "label": "c. 1406 BC · Year 40, month 11 (Deuteronomy 1:3)",
      "earliest": -1406,
      "latest": -1406,
      "note": "Dated from 1 Kings 6:1 (the Exodus c. 1446 BC). Many scholars instead date the Exodus to about 1260 BC, placing these speeches about 1220 BC."
    }
  },
  "places": [
    {
      "id": "region-moab",
      "name": "Plains of Moab",
      "coordinate": [
        35.64,
        31.85
      ],
      "kind": "Region",
      "confidence": "Approximate region",
      "confidenceSource": "editorial",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Numbers 33:48–49 · extent of the camp",
          "url": "https://ebible.org/eng-web/NUM33.htm"
        }
      ],
      "extent": [
        [
          35.56,
          31.77
        ],
        [
          35.7,
          31.91
        ]
      ]
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  ],
  "provenance": {
    "review": "draft",
    "sources": [
      {
        "name": "editorial"
      }
    ]
  },
  "passages": [
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 2:24–3:11",
      "range": [
        5002024,
        5003011
      ],
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%202%3A24%E2%80%933%3A11&version=BSB",
      "availability": "bundled",
      "verses": [
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 2,
          "verse": 24,
          "text": "“Arise, set out, and cross the Arnon Valley. See, I have delivered into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle."
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 2,
          "verse": 25,
          "text": "This very day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon all the nations under heaven. They will hear the reports of you and tremble in anguish because of you.”"
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 2,
          "verse": 26,
          "text": "So from the Wilderness of Kedemoth I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon, saying,"
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 2,
          "verse": 27,
          "text": "“Let us pass through your land; we will stay on the main road. We will not turn to the right or to the left."
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 2,
          "verse": 28,
          "text": "You can sell us food to eat and water to drink in exchange for silver. Only let us pass through on foot,"
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 2,
          "verse": 29,
          "text": "just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for us, until we cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving us.”"
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 2,
          "verse": 30,
          "text": "But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day."
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 2,
          "verse": 31,
          "text": "Then the LORD said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”"
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 2,
          "verse": 32,
          "text": "So Sihon and his whole army came out for battle against us at Jahaz."
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 2,
          "verse": 33,
          "text": "And the LORD our God delivered him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and his whole army."
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 2,
          "verse": 34,
          "text": "At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors."
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 2,
          "verse": 35,
          "text": "We carried off for ourselves only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured."
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 2,
          "verse": 36,
          "text": "From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them."
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 2,
          "verse": 37,
          "text": "But you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, or the land along the banks of the Jabbok River, or the cities of the hill country, or any place that the LORD our God had forbidden."
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 1,
          "text": "Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei."
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 2,
          "text": "But the LORD said to me, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”"
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 3,
          "text": "So the LORD our God also delivered Og king of Bashan and his whole army into our hands. We struck them down until no survivor was left."
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 4,
          "text": "At that time we captured all sixty of his cities. There was not a single city we failed to take—the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan."
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 5,
          "text": "All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages."
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 6,
          "text": "We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city."
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 7,
          "text": "But all the livestock and plunder of the cities we carried off for ourselves."
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 8,
          "text": "At that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon—"
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 9,
          "text": "which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir—"
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 10,
          "text": "all the cities of the plateau, all of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far as the cities of Salecah and Edrei in the kingdom of Og."
        },
        {
          "book": "Deuteronomy",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 11,
          "text": "(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "attribution": [
    "Study guide: original editorial writing for Scripture Atlas.",
    "Place coordinates: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.",
    "Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm"
  ],
  "translation": "bsb",
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  "cautions": "Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.",
  "revision": "9320c1d7af65c81c"
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