Deuteronomy 2:10

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(The Emim—a large and numerous people, as tall as the Anakim—had formerly inhabited it.

Cross References

Genesis 14:5

In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and subdued the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

2 Samuel 21:16

Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze and who was fitted out with new weapons, said he would kill David.

Numbers 13:22

They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron, and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the Anakites, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Deuteronomy 1:28

Where are we headed? Our kindred have made our hearts melt by reporting, “The people are stronger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified up to heaven! We actually saw there the offspring of the Anakim!” ’

Deuteronomy 2:11

Like the Anakim, they are usually reckoned as Rephaim, though the Moabites call them Emim.