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Sihon and Og had ruled Amorite kingdoms east of the Jordan River. Their land stretched from the Arnon River gorge in the south to Mount Hermon in the north, and we captured it all. Mount Hermon is called Mount Sirion by the people of Sidon, and it is called Mount Senir by the Amorites. 10 We captured all the towns in the highlands, all of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, two of the towns that Og had ruled.

Og's Coffin

11 King Og was the last of the Rephaim,[a] and his coffin[b] is in the town of Rabbah in Ammon. It is made of hard black rock[c] and is four meters long and almost two meters wide.

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Footnotes

  1. 3.11 Rephaim: See the note at 2.10,11.
  2. 3.11 coffin: Or “bed.”
  3. 3.11 hard black rock: The Hebrew text has “iron,” which probably refers to basalt, a hard black rock.

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