Deuteronomy 3:5 - All these were cities fortified with

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All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.

All the cities were fenced with very high walls, and with gates and bars, be- sides innumerable towns that had no walls.

DBY

All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns very many.

WBT

All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns a great number.

YLT

All these are cities fenced with high walls, two-leaved doors and bar, apart from cities of villages very many;

BBE

All these towns had high walls round them with doors and locks; and in addition we took a great number of unwalled towns.

JPS

All these were fortified cities, with high walls, gates, and bars; beside the unwalled towns a great many.

CPDV

All the cities were fortified with very high walls, and with gates and bars, in addition to innumerable villages which had no walls.

Latin

Omnes autem istae urbes erant munitae muris altis, portis et vectibus: praeter urbes non muratas multas valde.

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Albert Barnes' Notes (1834)

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 statements of these verses.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes (1599)

All these cities [were] fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside (b) unwalled towns a great many.
(b) As villages and small towns.

John Gill's Exposition (1746-63)

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 Israelites; and this might serve to encourage them against those fears they were possessed of by the spies, with respect to the cities in the land of Canaan; see Numbers 13:28.
besides unwalled towns a great many; small towns and villages adjacent to the several cities, as is common.

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Deuteronomy - 3:5

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