Quotes About History

So the LORD our God also delivered Og king of Bashan and his whole army into our hands. We struck them down until no survivor was left.

At that time we captured all sixty of his cities. There was not a single city we failed to take—the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.

which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir—

all the cities of the plateau, all of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far as the cities of Salecah and Edrei in the kingdom of Og.

(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?

They took possession of the land belonging to Sihon and to Og king of Bashan—the two Amorite kings across the Jordan to the east—

extending from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Siyon (that is, Hermon),

be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

But do not be afraid of them. Be sure to remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt:

Know this day that it is not your children who have known and seen the discipline of the LORD your God: His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm;

the signs and works He did in Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his land;

For it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done.

Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the journey after you came out of Egypt.

Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.

Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt,

Then the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror, signs, and wonders.

Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.

For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.

And the people will answer, ëIt is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.