Deuteronomy 3:5

5 All these cities were fortified with high walls and with gates and bars, and there were also a great many unwalled villages.

Deuteronomy 3:5 in Other Translations

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

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

5 These towns were all fortified with high walls and barred gates. We also took many unwalled villages at the same time.

5 All these cities were fortress cities with high walls and barred gates. There were also numerous unwalled villages.

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

5 All of these cities were fortified with high walls and double-door gates with bars across the gates. We also captured a large number of unwalled villages.

5 All these were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a large number of rural villages.

5 All of those cities had high walls around them. The city gates were made secure with heavy metal bars. There were also large numbers of villages that didn't have walls.

Deuteronomy 3:5 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 3:5

All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars,
&c.] 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 ) ( Deuteronomy 1:28 )

besides unwalled towns a great many;
small towns and villages adjacent to the several cities, as is common.

Deuteronomy 3:5 In-Context

3 So the LORD our God also gave into our hands Og king of Bashan and all his army. We struck them down, leaving no survivors.

4 At that time we took all his cities. There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take from them—the whole region of Argob, Og’s kingdom in Bashan.

5 All these cities were fortified with high walls and with gates and bars, and there were also a great many unwalled villages.

6 We completely destroyed them, as we had done with Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying every city—men, women and children.

7 But all the livestock and the plunder from their cities we carried off for ourselves.