Places of the Bible

Bashan

Region · region

Mount Hermon and vicinity. The Hauran from Hermon 1920 · American Colony Photo Department / Matson Photo Service · Library of Congress, no known restrictions on publication

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Bashan, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place. The numbers are the lines below.

1 War with Canaanites · 1450 BC · 3 verses
2 Dividing the land · 1444 BC · 4 verses
3 Reign of Solomon · 1014 BC · 2 verses
4 Reign of Jehu · 885 BC · 1 verse
5 Prophecies of Amos · 787 BC · 1 verse
6 Prophecies of Isaiah · 758 BC · 2 verses
7 Prophecies of Micah · 753 BC · 1 verse
8 Prophecies of Nahum · 662 BC · 1 verse
9 Prophecies of Jeremiah · 627 BC · 2 verses
10 Prophecies of Ezekiel · 592 BC · 2 verses
11 Prophecies of Zechariah · 519 BC · 1 verse

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Light soil, first mentioned in Gen. 14:5, where it is said that Chedorlaomer and his confederates “smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth,” where Og the king of Bashan had his residence. At the time of Israel’s entrance into the Promised Land, Og came out against them, but was utterly routed (Num. 21:33-35; Deut. 3:1-7). This country extended from Gilead in the south to Hermon in the north, and from the Jordan on the west to Salcah on the east. Along with the half of Gilead it was given to the half-tribe of Manasseh (Josh. 13:29-31). Golan, one of its cities, became a “city of refuge” (Josh. 21:27). Argob, in Bashan, was one of Solomon’s commissariat districts (1 Kings 4:13). The cities of Bashan were taken by Hazael (2 Kings 10:33), but were soon after reconquered by Jehoash (2 Kings 13:25), who overcame the Syrians in three battles, according to the word of Elisha (19). From this time Bashan almost disappears from history, although we read of the wild cattle of its rich pastures (Ezek. 39:18; Ps. 22:12), the oaks of its forests (Isa. 2:13; Ezek. 27:6; Zech. 11:2), and the beauty of its extensive plains (Amos 4:1; Jer. 50:19). Soon after the conquest, the name “Gilead” was given to the whole country beyond Jordan. After the Exile, Bashan was divided into four districts,

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 52 verses

Numbers: 21:33, 32:33
Deuteronomy: 1:4, 3:1, 3:3, 3:4, 3:10, 3:11, 3:13, 4:43, 4:47, 29:7, 32:14, 33:22
Joshua: 9:10, 12:4, 12:5, 13:11, 13:12, 13:30, 13:31, 17:1, 17:5, 20:8, 21:6, 21:27, 22:7
1 Kings: 4:13, 4:19
2 Kings: 10:33
1 Chronicles: 5:11, 5:12, 5:16, 5:23, 6:62, 6:71
Nehemiah: 9:22
Psalms: 22:12, 68:15, 68:22, 135:11, 136:20
Isaiah: 2:13, 33:9
Jeremiah: 22:20, 50:19
Ezekiel: 27:6, 39:18
Amos: 4:1
Micah: 7:14
Nahum: 1:4
Zechariah: 11:2

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.