Og

Og was the Amorite king of Bashan who was defeated by the Israelites during their journey to the Promised Land.

The name Og means “a cake; bread baked in ashes”

MaleKingAmmonEgypt and Wilderness eraOld Testament6 books26 verses

Summary

A king of Bashan living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Numbers 21:33; only referred to as Og (עוֹג).

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Includes 4 verses that refer to Og without naming them, as “he”, “she”, or the subject of a verb.

  1. Then they turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet them in battle at Edrei.
  2. Numbers 21:34Referred to, not named
    But the LORD said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”
  3. Numbers 21:35Referred to, not named
    So they struck down Og, along with his sons and his whole army, until no remnant was left. And they took possession of his land.
  4. So Moses gave to the Gadites, to the Reubenites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan—the land including its cities and the territory surrounding them.
  5. This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and then at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.
  6. Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.
  7. Deuteronomy 3:2Referred to, not named
    But the LORD said to me, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”
  8. So the LORD our God also delivered Og king of Bashan and his whole army into our hands. We struck them down until no survivor was left.
  9. At that time we captured all sixty of his cities. There was not a single city we failed to take—the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
  10. …all the cities of the plateau, all of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far as the cities of Salecah and Edrei in the kingdom of Og.
  11. (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
  12. To the half-tribe of Manasseh I gave the rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og. (The entire region of Argob, the whole territory of Bashan, used to be called the land of the Rephaim.)
  13. They took possession of the land belonging to Sihon and to Og king of Bashan—the two Amorite kings across the Jordan to the east—
  14. When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.
  15. And the LORD will do to them as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, when He destroyed them along with their land.
  16. For we have 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 across the Jordan, whom you devoted to destruction.
  17. …and all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites beyond the Jordan—Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth.
  18. And Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.
  19. Joshua 12:5Referred to, not named
    He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan up to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
  20. …the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who had reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei and had remained as a remnant of the Rephaim. Moses had struck them down and dispossessed them,
  21. The territory from Mahanaim through all Bashan—all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, including all the towns of Jair that are in Bashan, sixty cities;
  22. …half of Gilead; and Ashtaroth and Edrei, the royal cities of Og in Bashan. All this was for the clans of the descendants of Machir son of Manasseh, that is, half of the descendants of Machir.
  23. Geber son of Uri in the land of Gilead, including the territories of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. There was also one governor in the land of Judah.
  24. You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.
  25. Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan.
  26. …and Og king of Bashan—His loving devotion endures forever.