🔢WEB · Numbers 21:35
What does Numbers 21:35 mean?
"So they struck him, with his sons and all his people, until there were no survivors; and they possessed his land."
— Numbers 21:35 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Moses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its villages, and drove out the Amorites who were there.
They turned and went up by the way of Bashan. Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
Yahweh said to Moses, “Don’t fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people, and his land. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”
So they struck him, with his sons and all his people, until there were no survivors; and they possessed his land.
Explanation
This verse concludes the account of Israel's battle against Og, the king of Bashan, during their journey through the wilderness toward the Promised Land. In plain terms, it reports the outcome of a military campaign: the Israelites defeated Og in battle, killed him along with his sons and all his people, leaving no survivors, and then took control of his territory. The language is direct and unadorned, simply stating the totality of the victory and its result — the transfer of land from Og's kingdom to Israel's possession.
The book of Numbers records Israel's forty years of wandering after leaving Egypt, as Moses led the people toward the land God had promised
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