Verse 11
11. Only Og… remained of the… giants In Abraham’s time the Rephaim were living in Bashan. Genesis 14:5.
His bedstead was… of iron It has been suggested that this was a sarcophagus of basalt. The black basalt of that region contains a large proportion of iron.
Is it not in Rabbath… Ammon Afterward called Philadelphia, now identified with
Amman about twenty-two miles from the Jordan.
After the cubit of a man That is, the ordinary cubit, usually reckoned as eighteen inches. That there was more than one cubit is clear. It has been supposed that Og, in preparing his sarcophagus, intentionally exceeded the necessary size, so as to convey an exaggerated impression of his extraordinary stature. In like manner Diodorus Siculus (xvii, 95) says that Alexander, in his march to India, caused two couches to be prepared for every footsoldier, each five cubits long.
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