 In a similar way, the Israelites took the country of Og, and these two victories gave them possession of continuous land east of the Jordan, from the Arnon to the foot of Mount Hermon.These victories, among the earliest successful campaigns of the Israelites, quickly became legendary among them, and are referred to numerous times in the Hebrew Bible as prototypical examples of God-given victory - for example in and .Biblical historian Joel S. Baden discusses the similarities between the encounter with Sihon and the earlier encounter with the king of Edom (), as well as a later parallel passage ().