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Og

Og

A person of the Exodus and wilderness years, first named at Numbers 21:33.

Lived: Egypt and Wilderness

What we know — and how we know it

Bible — stated in scripture (with verse) · 1
Life, role & deeds
BibleThe giant king of Bashan defeated by Israel east of the Jordan; his huge iron bedstead was long remembered.
Numbers 21:33–35; Deuteronomy 3:11

Where in scripture

NumbersDeuteronomyJoshua1 KingsNehemiahPsalms

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.

Numbers 21:33

Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.

Numbers 32:33

after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.

Deuteronomy 1:4

Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan. Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

Deuteronomy 3:1

So Yahweh our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people. We struck him until no one was left to him remaining.

Deuteronomy 3:3

We took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we didn’t take from them; sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

Deuteronomy 3:4

We took all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

Deuteronomy 3:10

(For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its width, after the cubit of a man.)

Deuteronomy 3:11

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.

Numbers 21:33Numbers 32:33Deuteronomy 1:4Deuteronomy 3:1Deuteronomy 3:3Deuteronomy 3:4Deuteronomy 3:10Deuteronomy 3:11Deuteronomy 3:13Deuteronomy 4:47Deuteronomy 29:7Deuteronomy 31:4Joshua 2:10Joshua 9:10Joshua 12:4Joshua 13:12Joshua 13:30Joshua 13:311 Kings 4:19Nehemiah 9:22Psalms 135:11Psalms 136:20