1. Joshua 12:4 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Who were the Rephaites?

Joshua 12:4 (ESV)

4 and Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei

Og controlled the fertile region of Bashan (Numbers 32:33) and he was the leader of a very large giant-like people known as the Rephaites (Deuteronomy 2:10–11, Deuteronomy 20:1 – 21:23).1