Deuteronomy 3:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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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.

Ver. 11. Og, a king of Bashan, remained,] sc., In Bashan; and he seems to have been of the remnant of those Rephaims, whom Chedorlaomer and his company smote in Ashteroth. Gen 14:5 Jos 13:12

Is it not in Rabbath?] Kept for a monument of so mighty and massy a man.

a The Jews fable that he escaped in the flood by riding astride on the ark!

Deuteronomy 3:11

11 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.