Deuteronomy
3:1 ¶ Then we turned, and went up the
way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his
people, to battle at Edrei. 2 And the
LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people,
and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto
Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. 3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands
Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none
was left to him remaining. 4 And we took
all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them,
threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 5 All these cities were fenced with high
walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many. 6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto
Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of
every city. 7 But all the cattle, and
the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. 8 And we took at that time out of the hand of
the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan,
from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon; 9
(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it
Shenir;) 10 All the cities of the plain,
and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom
of Og in Bashan. 11 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.
Nine cubits were between 13 ½ to 18
feet long depending on the actual length of a cubit. A cubit, according to some
authorities, was a measurement that extended from a man’s elbow to his
fingertips. There are different cubits in the Bible. Here is the cubit of a man which may allow for some
estimations without an absolute and precise standard based on the differences
in the sizes of men’s forearms.
But
there could be a more exacting measurement of a cubit that wasn’t dependent
upon the length of an individual’s forearm. See in the next verse a measuring reed of a specific length to
measure by.
Ezekiel 40:5 ¶ And behold a wall on the outside of the house
round about, and in the man’s hand a
measuring reed of six cubits long
by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building,
one reed; and the height, one reed.
The
standard cubit was 18 inches long, many sources say.
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