바산(Bashan) 은 매우 비옥한 지역으로, 성경 속에서도 부유한 곳으로 기록되었다.
Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan , who are on the mountain of Samaria , who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan , and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.
이 지역은 바산 왕
Og 이 다스리던 곳으로 가나안 정복 전쟁당시 패하였다.
33 They turned and went up by the way of Bashan . Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
34 Yahweh said to Moses , “Don’t fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people, and his land. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon .”
35 So they struck him, with his sons and all his people, until there were no survivors; and they possessed his land.
이후, 이 땅은
므낫세 반 지파 에게 분배되었다.
and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan , the kingdom of Og , I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh—all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim .
이 지역에 속한 곳 중 유명한 곳은
Golan 으로 지금도 현대 이스라엘 국가에서 중요한 지역이다.