For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
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Gill's Exposition
For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants,.... The meaning seems to be, either that he was the only one that was left of the race of the giants the Ammonites found when they took…
Barnes' Notes
Giants - Or Rephaim: see the marginal reference note. A bedstead of iron - The “iron” was probably the black basalt of the country, which not only contains a large proportion, about 20 percent, of…
We have here another brave country delivered into the hand of Israel, that of Bashan; the conquest of Sihon is often mentioned together with that of Og, to the praise of God, the rather because in…
Cambridge Bible
Archaeological Note. -Ôgwas the last survivor of the Repha-îm (see on Deu 1:28). Bedstead, rather sarcophagus, for though the Heb. -ereselsewhere means couch, its synonyms miṭah(2Sa 3:31) and…
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