Deuteronomy 1:3,4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

The eleventh month Which was but a little before his death. All that the Lord had given him in command Which shows not only that what he now delivered was in substance the same with what had formerly been commanded, but that God now commanded him to repeat it. He gave this rehearsal and exhortation by divine direction: God appointed him to leave this legacy to the church. Og His palace or mansion-house was at Astaroth, and he was slain at Edrei.

Deuteronomy 1:3-4

3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;

4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei: