Numbers 21:33Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

And they turned themselves, and went up by the way of Basan, and Og the king of Basan came against them with all his people, to fight in Edrai.
Douay-Rheims

וַיִּפְנוּ֙ וַֽיַּעֲל֔וּ דֶּ֖רֶךְ הַבָּשָׁ֑ן וַיֵּצֵ֣א עוֹג֩ מֶֽלֶךְ־הַבָּשָׁ֨ן לִקְרָאתָ֜ם ה֧וּא וְכָל־עַמּ֛וֹ לַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה אֶדְרֶֽעִי׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

The Church Fathers on this verse

One Church Father comments on this verse

Basil the Great

4th centuryChurch Father

The king of Bashan is known as Og, which signifies a barrier, as the deeds of sin obstruct the path to salvation. Those who engage in fornication, adultery, and other immoral acts, such as sodomy, find Og reigning over them, leading to their separation from God.

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Josh 13:12All the kingdom of Og in Basan, who reigned in Astaroth and Edrai, he was of the remains of the Raphaims: and Moses overthrew and destroyed them.
Deut 1:4After that he had slain Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in Hesebon: and Og king of Basan who abode in Astaroth, and in Edrai,
Deut 29:7And you came to this place: and Sehon king of Hesebon, and Og king of Basan, came out against us to fight. And we slew them.
Deut 3:1Then we turned and went by the way of Basan: and Og the king of Basan came out to meet us with his people to fight in Edrai.
Deut 3:6And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to Sehon the king of Hesebon, destroying every city, men and women and children:
Ezek 39:18You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and you shall drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, and of lambs, and of he goats, and bullocks, and of all that are well fed and fat.
Isa 33:9The land hath mourned, and languished: Libanus is confounded, and become foul, and Saron is become as a desert: and Basan and Carmel are shaken.
Deut 4:47Possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Basan, of the two kings of the Amorrhites, who were beyond the Jordan towards the rising of the sun: