Deuteronomy 3:12-17
The conquered Transjordan territory becomes covenant inheritance when Moses assigns it to specific tribes with named boundaries under the Lord's gift.
12 This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites;
13 and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh—all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim.
14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.)
15 I gave Gilead to Machir.
16 To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
17 the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
The conquered Transjordan territory becomes covenant inheritance when Moses assigns it to specific tribes with named boundaries under the LORD's gift.
Moses rehearses how the territory conquered from Sihon and Og was apportioned to Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, showing that the LORD's victories became ordered inheritance with defined boundaries rather than unregulated expansion.
Moses is speaking east of the Jordan after Israel has defeated Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan. The nation stands on the brink of entering Canaan, and Moses recounts the earlier distribution of Transjordan territory to remind Israel that even land already possessed is received under divine appointment. The new generation of Israel, including the tribes west of the Jordan and the Transjordan tribes who have received inheritance east of the Jordan.
Og Defeated, the Land Divided, and Moses Refused Entry
The LORD completes the Transjordanian conquest by delivering Og of Bashan just as he delivered Sihon, then distributes the captured territory among Reuben, Gad, and half of Manasseh — but when Moses pleads to cross the Jordan himself, the LORD refuses, redirecting Moses's longing toward a mountaintop view and charging Joshua with the task of bringing the people in.