Og, king of Bashan, was the other Transjordanic ruler, defeated in the same campaign as Sihon. The pairing of these two rulers suggests that their combined defeat represented the conquest of the Transjordanic territories. These specific historical instances provide concreteness to the theological claims about God's judgment against opposition. This verse completes the Transjordanic narrative before moving to the Canaanite conquest proper.

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