John Gill Commentary Deuteronomy 3:10

"all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan." — Deuteronomy 3:10 (ASV)

All the cities of the plain
There was a plain by Medeba, and Heshbon and her cities were in a plain, with some others given to the tribe of Reuben, (Joshua 13:16Joshua 13:17)

and all Gilead ;
Mount Gilead, and the cities belonging to it, a very fruitful country, half of which fell to the share of the Reubenites, and the rest to the half tribe of Manasseh:

and all Bashan ;
of which Og was king, called Batanea, a very fertile country, as before observed:

unto Salcah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan ;
which seem to be frontier cities of the latter: see (Deuteronomy 1:4) (3:1) . The former, Adrichomius ^F16 says, was situated by the city Geshur and Mount Hermon, and was the boundary of the country of Bashan to the north; and according to Benjamin of Tudela ^F17 , it was half a day's journey from Gilead: as Edrei seems to be its boundary to the south.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F16: Thestrum Terrae Sanct. p. 94.
• F17: Itinerar. p. 57.