Og

Og was the Amorite king of Bashan, celebrated in the Old Testament as the last survivor of the Rephaim — the giant race of pre-Israelite Canaan. His kingdom, which included sixty fortified cities, was conquered by Israel under Moses east of the Jordan (Numbers 21:33–35; Deuteronomy 3:1–7). Deuteronomy 3:11 notes that his iron bedstead (eres) was nine cubits long and four cubits wide (approximately 13 by 6 feet), kept at Rabbah of the Ammonites as evidence of his extraordinary size.

The defeat of Og and the parallel defeat of Sihon king of the Amorites became formulaic paradigms of divine power in Israelite liturgy: Psalms 135:11 and 136:20 name Sihon and Og together among God's mighty acts at the conquest. Nehemiah 9:22 and Amos 2:9 also invoke the defeat of the Amorites as evidence of God's faithfulness. The memory of Og represents Israel's confidence that divine power prevails over the most formidable human opposition.