These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
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These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
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Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
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these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 2:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 14:5 In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
- Numbers 13:22 They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
- Numbers 13:28 However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.
- Numbers 13:33 There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”
- Deuteronomy 1:28 Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’ ”
- Deuteronomy 9:2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, “Who can stand before the sons of Anak?”
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims,.... Because…
Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims,.... Because of their bulky size and tall stature; or,"the Rephaim were they accounted, even they as the Anakims;''they were reckoned Rephaim, a name for giants in early times, even as the Anakims were; see Gen 14:5.
but the Moabites called them Emims; to distinguish them from the Rephaim; so that it seems this name of Emims was not originally their name, but they are called so by a prolepsis, or anticipation, in Gen 14:5 since they had it from the Moabites, a people of a later date.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 11. Which also were accounted giants] This is…
Verse 11. Which also were accounted giants] This is not a fortunate version. The word is not giants, but רפאים Rephaim, the name of a people. It appears that the Emim, the Anakim, and the Rephaim, were probably the same people, called by different names in the different countries where they dwelt; for they appear originally to have been a kind of wandering free-booters, who lived by plunder. (See on the preceding verse.) It must be granted, however, that there were several men of this race of extraordinary stature. And hence all gigantic men have been called Rephaim. (See on Ge 6:4, and Ge 14:5.) But we well know that fear and public report have often added whole cubits to men's height. It was under this influence that the spies acted, when they brought the disheartening report mentioned Nu 13:33.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Giants. Hebrew Raphaim, which Grotius thinks is a word…
Giants. Hebrew Raphaim, which Grotius thinks is a word retained from the primitive language. It sometimes denotes giants, and those who groan in hell, on account of the great iniquity of the Raphaim, Job. xxvi. 5. Og was one of their descendants, and inhabited the same country, which they had occupied in the days of Abraham, chap. iii. 2. (Calmet) --- They lost much of their power in the war of Sodom. Some of them fled into the land of the Philistines, and established themselves there, 1 Kings xxi. 16. As these gigantic nations had been overthrown, as well as the Horrhites, when God formerly gave their territories to Moad and to Esau, (Haydock) so the Hebrews may be assured, that nothing will be able to resist their power, while He is with them. (Menochius)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11. Rephaim … Anakim] See on Deu_1:28.
11. Rephaim … Anakim] See on Deu_1:28.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 2:11 The Rephaites lived near Ashteroth-karnaim (Gen 14:5; perhaps…
2:11 The Rephaites lived near Ashteroth-karnaim (Gen 14:5; perhaps modern Tell Ashtarah), due east of the Sea of Galilee (see Deut 1:4).
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