Back at Edrey

 According to local news, Zahal has entered Daraa, the capital of South Syria. Daraa dates back to the Canaanites. It was mentioned in Egyptian hieroglyphic tablets between 1490 and 1436 BC, during the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose III, as the city of Atharaa. In the Hebrew Bible, it is referred to as Edrei or Edre'i (אֶדְרֶעִי), the capital of Bashan, the site of a battle in which the Israelites defeated Og. 

Next we turned and headed for the land of Bashan, where King Og and his entire army attacked us at Edrei. But the Lord told me, "Do not be afraid of him, for I have given you victory over Og and his entire army, and I will give you all his land. Treat him just as you treated King Sihon of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon."

So the Lord our God handed King Og and all his people over to us, and we killed them all. Not a single person survived. We conquered all sixty of his towns—the entire Argob region in his kingdom of Bashan. Not a single town escaped our conquest. These towns were all fortified with high walls and barred gates. We also took many unwalled villages at the same time. We completely destroyed the kingdom of Bashan, just as we had destroyed King Sihon of Heshbon. We destroyed all the people in every town we conquered—men, women, and children alike. But we kept all the livestock for ourselves and took plunder from all the towns.