And there came Og who had been spared from the giants that died in the flood; he had ridden above the ark, with a cover over him, being sustained from the food of Noah. He was not spared because of his merit, but that the inhabitants of the world might realise the mightiness of the Lord and say, ‘Did not the giants who were of old rebel against the Lord of the world, and he destroyed them from the earth?’ Now when these kings waged war, Og was with them. He said to himself: ‘I will go and inform Abram concerning Lot, who has been taken prisoner, that he may come to rescue him from the hands of the kings, and be delivered into their hands. So he came on the eve of the day of Passover, and he found him (Abram) making the unleavened bread. Then he laid it before Abram the Hebrew: now he dwelt at the crossroads of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were confederate with Abram.

And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive he armed the young men whom he had trained for war, having grown up in his house, but they were unwilling to go with him. So he chose from among them Eliezer, the son of Nimrod, who was equal in might to all of them, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.