Deuteronomy 2:11
These also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
In Context
10(The Emim dwelt in it formerly, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim.
Cross References
Genesis 14:5And in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
Numbers 13:28However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, very great, and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
Deuteronomy 1:28Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven, and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
2 Samuel 21:16and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred [shekels] of brass in weight, he being girded with a new [sword], thought to have slain David.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 2:9-24
8 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. 9 And the Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession. 10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;… Read the whole commentary →