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Bashan

The Bashan is a fertile northern region on the eastern side of the Jordan River, south of the Hermon and north of the Gilead.

  • Og had been the king of the Bashan until Moshe vanquished him (Numbers 21, 33; Deuteronomy 1, 4; Deut. 3, 1-11; Deut. 4, 47).
  • The Bashan was part of the territory of the half-tribe of Menashe (Deuteronomy 3, 13-14).
  • Golan was the city of refuge in the Bashan (Joshua 20, 8).
  • Bashan is listed as part of the kingdom of Shlomo (I Kings 4, 13-19).
  • King Hazael of Aram conquered the Bashan during the days of King Yehu of Israel 9II Kings 10, 33).
  • Yerovam ben Yoash returned the Bashan to Israel's jurisdiction (II Kings 14, 25).
  • King Tiglath-Pileser of Assyria exiled the inhabitants of the Bashan (II Kings 15, 29).
  • Yeshayahu mentions the "oaks of the Bashan" as an example of very tall trees in an elevated region, and Zekhariah mentions "oaks of Bashan, too (Isaiah 2, 13; Zachariah 11, 2).
  • Yeshayahu mentions the Bashan as part of a description of the state of fear of the Assyrians (Isaiah 33, 9).
  • Yirmiyahu mentions the Bashan as part of a prophecy of rebuke (Jeremiah 22, 20).
  • Yehezkel refers to the "oaks from the Bashan" as part of an elegy about Tzor  (Ezekiel 27, 6).
  • Amos mockingly calls the wives of the officials of Shomron "cows of Bashan" (Amos 4, 1).