Both the Emites and the Anakites are also known as the Rephaites, though the Moabites call them Emites.
Parallel translations
- WEB These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
- KJV Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
- BSB Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.
- NKJV They were also regarded as giants, like the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim.
- NASB Like the Anakim, they too are regarded as Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim.
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The Emim were reckoned among the Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emim. The note links them to the wider tradition of giant peoples.
Overview
This explanatory note classifies the Emim among the Rephaim, the broader category of ancient giant peoples, while preserving the local Moabite name. Such details give the narrative historical texture and connect the various 'giant' peoples Israel had feared. The point remains that these mighty peoples were displaced under God's providence, encouraging trust that the same sovereign God can give His people their promised inheritance.
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- Num 13:28However 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.
- Deut 9:2a 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?”
- Num 13:33There 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.”
- Deut 1:28Where 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!’”
- Gen 14:5In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
- Num 13:22They 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.)
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