Deuteronomy 2:11
9 Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”
10 (The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.
Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.
12 The Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land that the LORD gave them as their possession.)
13 “Now arise and cross over the Brook of Zered.” So we crossed over the Brook of Zered.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.
- KJV
- Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
- WEB
- These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
- ASV
- these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
- DARBY
- They also are reckoned as giants like the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
- BLB
- They also were regarded as Rephaim like the Anakites; and the Moabites call them Emites.
- ÅB
- Også de regnes for kjemper slik som anakittene, og moabittene kaller dem emitter.
- OTB
- Som anakittene ble også de regnet som refaitter, men moabittene kalte dem emittene.
- B1930
- Også de regnes for kjemper likesom anakittene, og moabittene kaller dem emitter.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 1:28
Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”
Read in contextNumbers 13:28
Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
Read in contextGenesis 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,
Read in contextDeuteronomy 9:2
The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them, and you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?”
Read in contextNumbers 13:33
We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”
Read in contextNumbers 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.
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