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Good News Translation

Deuteronomy 3:5

All these towns were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars to lock the gates, and there were also many villages without walls.

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.
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 "Next, we moved north toward the region of Bashan, and King Og came out with all his men to fight us near the town of Edrei. 2 But the Lord said to me, ‘Don't be afraid of him. I am going to give him, his men, and all his territory to you. Do the same thing to him that you did to Sihon the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon.' 3 "So the Lord also placed King Og and his people in our power, and we slaughtered them all. 4 At the same time we captured all his towns—there was not one that we did not take. In all we captured sixty towns—the whole region of Argob, where King Og of Bashan ruled. 5 All these towns were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars to lock the gates, and there were also many villages without walls. 6 We destroyed all the towns and put to death all the men, women, and children, just as we did in the towns that belonged to King Sihon of Heshbon. 7 We took the livestock and plundered the towns. 8 "At that time we took from those two Amorite kings the land east of the Jordan River, from the Arnon River to Mount Hermon. 9 (Mount Hermon is called Sirion by the Sidonians, and Senir by the Amorites.) 10 We took all the territory of King Og of Bashan: the cities on the plateau, the regions of Gilead and of Bashan, as far east as the towns of Salecah and Edrei."

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 that gives knowledge of what is good and what is bad. You must not eat the fruit of that tree; if you do, you will die the same day."
Genesis 3:2
"We may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden," the woman answered,
Genesis 3:3
"except the tree in the middle of it. God told us not to eat the fruit of that tree or even touch it; if we do, we will die."
Genesis 3:6
The woman saw how beautiful the tree was and how good its fruit would be to eat, and she thought how wonderful it would be to become wise. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, and he also ate it.
Genesis 3:7
As soon as they had eaten it, they were given understanding and realized that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and covered themselves.
Genesis 3:10
He answered, "I heard you in the garden; I was afraid and hid from you, because I was naked."
Genesis 3:13
The Lord God asked the woman, "Why did you do this?" She replied, "The snake tricked me into eating it."
Genesis 3:14
Then the Lord God said to the snake, "You will be punished for this; you alone of all the animals must bear this curse: From now on you will crawl on your belly, and you will have to eat dust as long as you live.
Genesis 3:15
I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite her offspring's heel."
Genesis 3:22
Then the Lord God said, "Now these human beings have become like one of us and have knowledge of what is good and what is bad. They must not be allowed to take fruit from the tree that gives life, eat it, 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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