Deuteronomy 3:11

Archaeological Note. -Ôgwas the last survivor of the Repha-îm (see on Deuteronomy 1:28). Bedstead, rather sarcophagus, for though the Heb. -ereselsewhere means couch, its synonyms miṭah(2 Samuel 3:31) and mishkab(Isaiah 57:2; Ezekiel 32:25) are used for bierand tomb(the latter too in Phoen.), and the monumental character of this -eresproves it to have been the same. Iron, rather basalt; I have often heard basalt called iron in Ḥauran. The cubit of a man: the ordinary cubit, originally the length of the lower arm; later there was also a longer cubit (Ezekiel 40:5; Ezekiel 43:13). Taking it as about 18 in., -Ôg's coffin was 13½ ft by 6. Some sites in E. Palestine are strewn with stone-coffins, e.g. Umm Keis, usually 7 to 8 ft by 2½ to 4. That of Eshmunazar, the Sidonian, Isaiah 7 by 4; -Hiram's Tomb" Isaiah 12 by 6. Cp. Doughty, Ar. Des.i. 18, on marble sarcophagi near Es-Salt, -little less than the bed of Og," and Cl. Ganneau, Arch. Res.ii. 233.