Lexicon :: Strong's H1316 - bāšān

Then they turned and went up by the way of Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

So Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon, the king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, the land with its cities and territories, the cities of the surrounding land.

“Then we turned and went up the road toward Bashan, and at Edrei, Og king of Bashan, with all his people came out to meet us in battle.

Butter and curds of cows, and milk of the flock,

With fat of lambs,

And rams, the breed of Bashan, and goats,

With the finest of the wheat;

And you drank wine, the blood of grapes.

Of Dan he said,

“Dan is a lion’s cub,

That leaps forth from Bashan.”

Now this was the lot (allotment) for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. To Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan, because he was a man of war.

The sons of Gershon received thirteen cities by lot from the families of the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher and from the tribe of Naphtali and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

To the sons of Gershon, one of the families of the Levites, they gave from the other half-tribe of Manasseh, [the city of] Golan in Bashan, the city of refuge for anyone who committed manslaughter, with its pasture lands, and Be-eshterah with its pasture lands; two cities.

Now to the one-half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given a possession in Bashan, but to the other half Joshua gave a possession on the west side of the Jordan among their brothers. So when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them,

The sons of Gad lived opposite them in the land of Bashan, as far as Salecah:

Now the sons (people) of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land; their settlements spread from Bashan to Baal-hermon and Senir and Mount Hermon.

To the sons of Gershom were given from the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan and Ashtaroth, with their pasture lands;

“You also gave them kingdoms and peoples,

And You allotted the kingdoms to them as a boundary.

So they took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon

And the land of Og king of Bashan.

Many [enemies like] bulls have surrounded me;

Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan;

A [high] mountain of many summits is Mount Bashan [rising east of the Jordan].

The Lord said, “I will bring your enemies back from Bashan;

I will bring them back from the depths of the [Red] Sea,

Sihon, king of the Amorites,

Og, king of Bashan,

And all the kingdoms of Canaan;

And Og, king of Bashan,

For His lovingkindness endures forever;

And the wrath of God will be against all the cedars of Lebanon [west of the Jordan] that are high and lifted up,

Against all the oaks of Bashan [east of the Jordan],

The land mourns and dries out,

Lebanon is shamed and [its lush foliage] withers;

[fn]Sharon is like a desert plain,

And [fn]Bashan and [Mount] Carmel shake off their leaves.

“Go up [north] to Lebanon and cry out,

And raise your voice in [the hills of] Bashan [across the Jordan];

Cry out also from [fn]Abarim,

For all your lovers (allies) have been destroyed.

“Of the oaks of Bashan they have made your oars;

They have made your deck of boxwood from the coastlands of Cyprus, inlaid with ivory.

Hear this word, you [well-fed, pampered] cows (women) of Bashan who are on the mountain of Samaria,

Who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,

Who say to their husbands, “Bring [the wine] now, and let us drink!”