Deuteronomy 2:11
These also shall be accounted Rephaim like the Anakim; and the Moabites call them Emim.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
In Context
10Formerly the Emim dwelt in it, a great and numerous nation and powerful, like the Anakim.
Cross References
Genesis 14:5And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings with him, and cut to pieces the giants in Ashteroth, and Karnaim, and strong nations with them, and the Emim in the city Shaveh.
Numbers 13:28Only the nation that dwells upon it is bold, and they have very great and strong walled towns, and we saw there the children of Anak.
Deuteronomy 1:28Whither do we go up? and your brethren drew away your heart, saying, It is a great nation and populous, and mightier than we; and there are cities great and walled up to heaven: moreover we saw there the sons of the giants.
2 Samuel 21:16And Ishbi, who was of the progeny of Rapha, and the head of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, who also was girded with a club, even he thought to smite 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 →