Deuteronomy 3:11 BSB

Deuteronomy 3:11

(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.)

BSB

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ASV

(For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.)

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Giants - Or Rephaim: see the marginal reference note. A bedstead of iron - The “iron” was probably the black basalt of the country, which not only contains a large proportion, about 20 percent, of iron, but was actually called “iron,” and is still so regarded by the Arabians. Iron was indeed both known and used, principally for tools (see e. g. Deu 19:5 and compare Gen 4:22 note), at the date in question by the Semitic people of Palestine and the adjoining countries; but bronze was the ordinary metal of which weapons, articles of furniture, etc., were made.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

In Rabbath - Where it might now be, either because the Ammonites in some former battle with Og, had taken it as a spoil: or because after Og's death, the Ammonites desired to have this monument of his greatness, and the Israelites permitted them to carry it away to their chief city. Nine cubits - So his bed was four yards and an half long, and two yards broad.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

To avoid this, some eminent critics take the Hebrew word rendered "bedstead" to mean "coffin." They think that the king of Bashan having been wounded in battle, fled to Rabbath, where he died and was buried; hence the dimensions of his "coffin" are given [DATHE, ROOS].

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
רַק־	rak-	only	H7535 →
ע֞וֹג	og	Og	H5747 →
מֶ֣לֶךְ	Me.lekh	[the] king of	H4428 →
הַבָּשָׁ֗ן	ha.ba.Shan	<the> Bashan	H1316 →
נִשְׁאַר֮	nish.'Ar	he survived	H7604 →
מִיֶּ֣תֶר	mi.Ye.ter	from [the] remnant of	H3499 →
הָרְפָאִים֒	ha.re.fa.'Im	the Rephaites	H7497 →
הִנֵּ֤ה	hi.Neh	there!	H2009 →
עַרְשׂוֹ֙	ar.So	sarcophagus his	H6210 →
עֶ֣רֶשׂ	'E.res	[was] a sarcophagus of	H6210 →
בַּרְזֶ֔ל	bar.Zel	iron	H1270 →
הֲלֹ֣ה	ha.Loh	¿ not	H3808 →
הִ֔וא	hi'	[is] it	H1931 →
בְּרַבַּ֖ת	be.ra.Bat	in Rabbah of	H7237 →
בְּנֵ֣י	be.Nei	[the] people of	H1121 →
עַמּ֑וֹן	a.Mon	Ammon	H5983 →
תֵּ֧שַׁע	Te.sha'	[was] nine	H8672 →
אַמּ֣וֹת	'a.Mot	cubits	H520 →
אָרְכָּ֗הּ	'a.re.Kah	length its	H753 →
וְאַרְבַּ֥ע	ve.'ar.Ba'	and [was] four	H702 →
אַמּ֛וֹת	'a.Mot	cubits	H520 →
רָחְבָּ֖הּ	ra.che.Bah	breadth its	H7341 →
בְּאַמַּת־	be.'a.mat-	by a cubit of	H520 →
אִֽישׁ׃	'Ish	a human	H376 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Amos 2:9
Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and…
leads to
- Job 18:16
  The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.
- Malachi 4:1
  “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of…
Through
Jeremiah 49:2
Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned.…
leads to
- Jeremiah 4:19
  My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm…
- Ezekiel 21:20
  Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and another against Judah into fortified Jerusalem.
Through
Genesis 14:5
In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
leads to
- Deuteronomy 2:10–11
  (The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.
- Genesis 15:20
  Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
- Deuteronomy 1:4
  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.
Through
2 Samuel 12:26
Meanwhile, Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal fortress.
leads to
- 1 Chronicles 20:1–3
  In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the Ammonites. He came to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained…