Deuteronomy 3:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

All the cities of the plain, х hamiyshor (H4334)] - the downs, the high tableland used topographically for the country east of the Jordan (Numbers 21:20; Joshua 21:9; Joshua 21:16; Joshua 21:21: cf. Genesis 36:35).

And all Gilead - the name given to the mountain region eastward of Argob, and derived from the Gal-ed, or mound of witness, raised by Laban and Jacob on the highest summit of the highland region of Jebel-Ajlun.

Jebel-Jelad - a lofty peak of the hill country-formed the southern limit of Bashan.

All Bashan - already described (see the note at Numbers 21:33).

Salchah - now Salkhad, a royal city on the eastern confines of Jebel-Hauran.

Deuteronomy 3:10

10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.