Deuteronomy 3:5
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
Deuteronomy 3:5 in other translations
| BSB | All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages. |
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| WEB | All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, in addition to a great many villages without walls. |
| ASV | All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many. |
| YLT | All these are cities fenced with high walls, two-leaved doors and bar, apart from cities of villages very many; |
| DARBY | All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns very many. |
| BBE | All these towns had high walls round them with doors and locks; and in addition we took a great number of unwalled towns. |
| Webster | All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns a great number. |
What does Deuteronomy 3:5 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 3:3-8
3-8. Argob was the capital of a district in Bashan of the same name, which, together with other fifty-nine cities in the same province, were conspicuous for their lofty and fortified walls. It was a war of extermination. Houses and cities were razed to the ground; all classes of people were put to the sword; and nothing was saved but the cattle, of which an immense amount fell as spoil into the hands of the…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 3:1-11
Og was very powerful, but he did not take warning by the ruin of Sihon, and desire conditions of peace. He trusted his own strength, and so was hardened to his destruction. Those not awakened by the judgments of God on others, ripen for the like judgments on themselves.
Deuteronomy 3:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 3:5
- Numbers 13:28
Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
- Deuteronomy 1:28
Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
- Hebrews 11:30
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.
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Context
- Deuteronomy 3:4
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.
- Deuteronomy 3:5
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
- Deuteronomy 3:6
And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
Deuteronomy 3:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Todas éstas eran ciudades fortalecidas con alto muro, con puertas y barras; sin otras muy muchas ciudades sin muro. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | toutes ces villes-là étaient fortifiées avec de hautes murailles, des portes et des barres, outre les villes ouvertes, en fort grand nombre; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | alle diese Städte waren befestigt mit hohen Mauern, Toren und Riegeln; außer den sehr vielen offenen Städten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Cunctæ urbes erant munitæ muris altissimis, portisque et vectibus, absque oppidis innumeris, quæ non habebant muros. |