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Deuteronomy 2:10
10(The Emites used to live there, a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites.
Deuteronomy 2:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
- New International Version (NIV)(The Emites used to live there—a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites.
- English Standard Version (ESV)(The Emim formerly lived there, a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim.
- New King James Version (NKJV)(The Emim had dwelt there in times past, a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anakim.
Context of Deuteronomy 2:10
8So we turned away from our relatives the descendants of Esau, the inhabitants of Seir, turning from the desert route, from Elat and Ezion Geber, and traveling the way of the Moab wastelands. 9Then the Lord said to me, “Do not harass Moab and provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land as your territory. This is because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession. (The Emites used to live there, a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites. 11These people, as well as the Anakites, are also considered Rephaites; the Moabites call them Emites. 12Previously the Horites lived in Seir but the descendants of Esau dispossessed and destroyed them and settled in their place, just as Israel did to the land it came to possess, the land the Lord gave them.)
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הָאֵמִ֥ים לְפָנִ֖ים יָ֣שְׁבוּ בָ֑הּ עַ֣ם גָּד֥וֹל וְרַ֛ב וָרָ֖ם כָּעֲנָקִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Deuteronomy 2:10
- Deuteronomy 2:11These people, as well as the Anakites, are also considered Rephaites; the Moabites call them Emites.
- Genesis 14:5In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings who were his allies came and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 2:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10The Emims dwelt therein - Calmet supposes that these people were destroyed in the war made against them by Chedorlaomer and his allies, Genesis 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…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10-12Verses 10-12 For the Emims, Horims, and Anakims, see the marginal references. These verses are either parenthetical or the insertion of a later hand.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-23Verses 8-23 We have the origin of the Moabites, Edomites, and Ammonites. Moses also gives an instance older than any of these; the Caphtorims drove the Avims out of their country. These revolutions show what uncertain things wordly possessions are. It was so of old, and ever will be so. Families decline, and from them estates are transferred to families that increase; so little continuance is there in these things. This is recorded to encourage the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10The Emites also lived at Shaveh-kiriathaim (Genesis 14:5). This was 16 kilometers (about 10 miles) east of the Dead Sea’s north end.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 8-188-18. we passed ... through the way of the plain--the Arabah or great valley, from Elath ("trees") (the Ailah of the Greeks and Romans). The site of it is marked by extensive mounds of rubbish. Ezion-geber--now Akaba, both were within the territory of Edom; and after making a circuit of its southeastern boundary, the Israelites reached the border of Moab on the southeast of the Salt Sea. They had been forbidden by divine command to molest the Moabites in…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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