“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.”
(For only Og king of Bashan remained of the Rephaites; 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, by the cubit of a man.) -- the note about Og's iron bed (nine by four cubits, roughly 13.5 by 6 feet) indicates that Og was a giant of extraordinary size. The iron bed, preserved in Rabbath (the Ammonite capital), is evidence of the conquest. Giants are real but conquerable. The parenthetical style (this gloss appears inserted) suggests the Deuteronomic compiler is citing sources or popular tradition.
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