Deuteronomy 2:10 BSB

Deuteronomy 2:10

(The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.

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ASV

(The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:

KJV

The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

The Emims dwelt there in time past,.... We read of them as early as the times of Chedorlaomer, Gen 14:5 when their dwelling was in Kirjathaim, a city which Sihon king of the Amorites took from the Moabites, and which being taken from him, was with others given to the tribe of Reuben, Num 32:37. These are by some thought to be the same with the Yemim which Anah found and met with in the wilderness, and defeated, which we render "mules", Gen 36:

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The Emims dwelt therein - Calmet supposes that these people were destroyed in the war made against them by Chedorlaomer and his allies, Gen 14:5. Lot possessed their country after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. They are generally esteemed as giants; probably they were a hardy, fierce, and terrible people, who lived, like the wandering Arabs, on the plunder of others. This was sufficient to gain them the appellation of giants, or men of prodigious stature. See next verse, Deu 2:11 (note).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

They had won it by their arms from the original inhabitants, the Emims, a race, terrible, as their name imports, for physical power and stature (Ge 14:5), in like manner as the Edomites had obtained their settlement by the overthrow of the original occupiers of Seir, the Horims (Ge 14:6), who were troglodytes, or dwellers in caves.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הָאֵמִ֥ים	ha.'e.Mim	the Emites	H368 →
לְפָנִ֖ים	le.fa.Nim	<to> before	H6440 →
יָ֣שְׁבוּ	Ya.she.vu	they dwelt	H3427 →
בָ֑הּ	Vah	in it
עַ֣ם	'am	a people	H5971 →
גָּד֥וֹל	ga.Dol	great	H1419 →
וְרַ֛ב	ve.Rav	and numerous	H7227 →
וָרָ֖ם	va.Ram	and lofty	H7311 →
כָּעֲנָקִֽים׃	ka.'a.na.Kim	like the Anakites	H6062 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Numbers 13:22
They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
leads to
- Psalms 78:43
  when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.
- Psalms 78:12
  He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
- Joshua 15:13–14
  According to the LORD’s command to him, Joshua gave Caleb son of Jephunneh a portion among the sons of Judah—Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron. (Arba was the forefather of Anak.)
- Isaiah 19:11
  The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?
Through
Genesis 14:5
In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
leads to
- Genesis 15:20
  Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
- Deuteronomy 2:10–11
  (The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.
- Deuteronomy 1:4
  This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and then at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.
- Deuteronomy 3:11
  (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

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