All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

All the cities of the plain, х hamiyshor (H4334)] - the downs, the high tableland used topographically for the country east of the Jordan (Numbers 21:20; Joshua 21:9; Joshua 21:16; Joshua 21:21: cf. Genesis 36:35).

And all Gilead - the name given to the mountain region eastward of Argob, and derived from the Gal-ed, or mound of witness, raised by Laban and Jacob on the highest summit of the highland region of Jebel-Ajlun.

Jebel-Jelad - a lofty peak of the hill country-formed the southern limit of Bashan.

All Bashan - already described (see the note at Numbers 21:33).

Salchah - now Salkhad, a royal city on the eastern confines of Jebel-Hauran.

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