And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities:
Their coast was from Mahanaim. The region occupied by the half tribe of Manasseh on the east of the Jordan was won by their own bravery, and confirmed to them by Moses (Numbers 32:39-42; Deuteronomy 33:13-15). For Mahanaim, the point from which the boundary line is traced, see the note at Joshua 13:26. The description embraces the border of "all Bashan," which comprehended the 60 cities of Jair (Deuteronomy 3:4), together with "half Gilead" - i:e., the northern part of it (Deuteronomy 3:4-5; 1 Kings 4:13) - of which the chief cities were Ashtaroth and Edrei. Ashtaroth had the epithet Karnaim ('the two horns,' or the crescent) Joined to it; so called from the worship of Astarte, or Ashtaroth, the Dea Syria being established there. This city was the capital of Bashan at the time of the Israelite invasion.
Edrei - now called Edhr'a (see the note at Numbers 21:33).