All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
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Gill's Exposition
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars,.... That is, all the cities in the kingdom of Bashan; and though they were, it hindered not their falling into the hands of the…
Barnes' Notes
Gates, and bars - literally, “Double gates and a bar.” The stone doors of Bashan, their height pointing to a race of great stature, and the numerous cities (deserted) exist to illustrate the…
We have here another brave country delivered into the hand of Israel, that of Bashan; the conquest of Sihon is often mentioned together with that of Og, to the praise of God, the rather because in…
Cambridge Bible
the unwalled towns Heb. towns of the Perazi, or country-folk; perazôth, Eze 38:11, are open, rural places in contrast to fenced cities.