This document is about Edrei (City of the King of Bashan). For other homonyms, please refer to the Edrei document.
The city of Og, king of Bashan.
During the Exodus, Moses was attacked by Og's army, and with God's help, they fought and won.
Deut 3:1Then we turned and went up the road toward Bashan, and Bashan’s king Og came out to meet us, he and all his people, for battle at Edrei.Deut 3:2And the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.’Deut 3:3So the Lord our God also delivered into our hands Bashan’s king Og and all his people, and we attacked him until he had no survivors.Deut 3:4We took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob), the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
It was allotted to the tribe of Manasseh.