OG OF BASHAN
Janine Forsyth
- 8 minutes read - 1538 wordsOg - Strong’s H5747: round, king of Bashan.
BDB Lexicon: long-necked, the Amorite king of Bashan and one of the last representatives of the giants of Rephaim.
Og was the giant king of Bashan. Og had an iron bed and it was 9 cubits long and 4 cubits wide - approximately 13,5x6 feet or 4,1x1,8 m. Moses defeated Og and his land was given to the tribes of Gad, Reuben and Manasseh. Og’s land was east of the Jordan and the Israelites took this land before they crossed the Jordan into the Promised Land.
Og is mentioned 22 times in the Bible. Nations feared God and the Israelites, after the mighty king Og was defeated. God gave the giant king and his 60 cities in the hands of the Israelites. The people were totally destroyed, but the Israelites kept the livestock. God told the Israelites not to be afraid and blessed them abundantly. We serve a mighty God; physical and spiritual giants aren’t a problem for God.
Numbers 21:33-35 MEV
They turned and went up by the way of Bashan, and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to the battle at Edrei.
[34] The LORD said to Moses, "Do not fear him because into your hand I have given him, and all his people, and his land, and you will do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon."
[35] So they killed him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was not a survivor left to him alive, and they possessed his land.
Numbers 32:33 MEV
Moses gave to the children of Gad, to the children of Reuben, and to half the 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 with the cities within the borders, the cities of the surrounding land.
Deuteronomy 1:4 MEV
It was after he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived at Ashtaroth in Edrei.
Deuteronomy 3:1,3-7-13 MEV
Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan, and Og, the king of Bashan, came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. [3] So the LORD, our God, delivered Og, the king of Bashan, with all his people, into our hands also, and we struck him down until there was no survivor remaining. [4] We took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. [5] All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many rural towns. [6] We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon, king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city. [7] But we took all the livestock and the spoil of the cities as plunder for ourselves.
So at that time we took from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was across the Jordan, from the River Arnon to Mount Hermon [9] (the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir), [10] all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, as far as Salekah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
For only Og, king of Bashan, remained of the remnant of the giants. (Notably, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? It is nine cubits long and four cubits wide, according to the cubit of a man.) [12] This is the land which we possessed at that time from Aroer, which is by the River Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead and its cities I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites. [13] The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (All the region of Argob, with all Bashan, was called the land of giants.
Deuteronomy 4:47 MEV
They possessed his land, and the land of Og, king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were across the Jordan toward the east,
Deuteronomy 29:7-8 MEV
When you came to this place, Sihon, the king of Heshbon, and Og, the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we defeated them. [8] We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and to half of the tribe of Manasseh.
Deuteronomy 31:4 MEV
The LORD will do to them as He did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, which He destroyed.
Joshua 2:8-11 MEV
Before the spies went to sleep, Rahab went up to them on the roof. [9] She said to the men, "I know that the LORD has given you the land, for dread from you has fallen upon us, and all the inhabitants of the land melt in terror before you. [10] For we heard how the LORD dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites who were on the other side of the Jordan, whom you completely destroyed. [11] Our hearts melted when we heard these things, and no man had any breath in him because of you, for the LORD your God is God in heaven above and on earth below.
Joshua 9:9-10 MEV
They said to him, "We, your slaves, have come from a very distant land because of the name of the LORD your God, for we heard news of Him and all He did in Egypt [10] and all that He did to the two Amorite kings on the other side of the Jordan, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan in Ashtaroth.
Joshua 12:4-6 MEV
and Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the giants, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei [5] and ruled over Mount Hermon, Salekah, and all of Bashan to the border of the Geshurites and the Maakathites, and over half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon. [6] Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel struck them down, and the servant of the LORD Moses gave their land to Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua 13:12 MEV
and in Bashan all the kingdom of Og, one of the last remnant of the giants, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei. Moses struck them down and took their lands.
Joshua 13:29-32 MEV
Moses assigned land to the half-tribe of Manasseh for the descendants of Manasseh according to their clans. [30] Their territory was from Mahanaim, through all of Bashan, all the kingdom of King Og of Bashan, all the sixty villages of Jair that are in Bashan, [31] half of Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei: cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. This was for the descendants of Makir son of Manasseh, half of the descendants of Makir by their clans. [32] This is the territory Moses assigned in the desert plains of Moab, on the eastern side of Jericho and the Jordan.
1 Kings 4:19 MEV
Geber the son of Uri in the country of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. He was the only officer who was in that region.
Nehemiah 9:22-25 MEV
"You gave them kingdoms and nations, and You divided them as boundaries. They possessed the land of Sihon, which was the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og, the king of Bashan. [23] Their descendants You increased like the stars of heaven, and You brought them into the land, which You had promised to their fathers that they would enter and possess it. [24] So the descendants went in and possessed the land, and You subdued for them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands-with their kings and the peoples of the land-to do with them as they would. [25] They captured unassailable cities and a fertile land. They possessed houses full of all goods, wells dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance, so they ate, were filled, and became fat, and they indulged themselves in Your great goodness.
Psalm 135:10-12 MEV
He struck down great nations and slew mighty kings- [11] Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan- [12] and gave their land for an inheritance, a possession to Israel His people.
Psalm 136:17-18,20-22 MEV
to Him who struck down great kings, for His mercy endures forever; [18] and slew mighty kings, for His mercy endures forever; [20] and Og king of Bashan, for His mercy endures forever; [21] and gave their land for a possession, for His mercy endures forever; [22] even an inheritance to Israel His servant, for His mercy endures forever.