Deuteronomy 3:6-16 – We completely destroyed them, as we had done with Sihon king of
Heshbon, destroying every city—men, women and children. But all the livestock and the plunder from their cities we
carried off for ourselves. So at that time we took from these two kings
of the Amorites the territory east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge as
far as Mount Hermon. (Hermon is called Sirion by the Sidonians; the Amorites call it
Senir.) We took all the towns on the plateau, and all Gilead, and all
Bashan as far as Salekah and Edrei, towns of Og’s kingdom in Bashan. (Og king of Bashan was the
last of the Rephaites. His bed was decorated with iron and was more than nine
cubits long and four cubits wide. It is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.) Of the land that
we took over at that time, I gave the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory
north of Aroer by the Arnon Gorge, including half the hill country of
Gilead, together with its towns. The rest of Gilead and also
all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (The whole region of Argob in Bashan used
to be known as a land of the Rephaites. Jair,a descendant of
Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites
and the Maakathites; it was named after him, so that to this day Bashan is
called Havvoth Jair.) And I gave Gilead to Makir. But to the Reubenites and
the Gadites I gave the territory extending from Gilead down to the Arnon Gorge
(the middle of the gorge being the border) and out to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites.
Psalm
133:3 – It is as if
the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion. For
there the Lord bestows his blessing,
even life forevermore.
Application:
- · A dew as profuse as that of Mount Hermon would make Mount Zion richly fruitful. So would communal unity make Israel richly fruitful.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
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