In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
Deuteronomy 2:11 - English Standard Version 2016 Like the Anakim they are also counted as Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition These also are known as Rephaim [of giant stature], as are the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim. American Standard Version (1901) these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. Common English Bible Most people thought the Emim were Rephaim, like the Anakim were. But the Moabites called them “Emim.” Catholic Public Domain Version They were considered to be like giants, and they were like the sons of the Anakim. And, indeed, the Moabites call them: the Emim. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They were esteemed as giants, and were like the sons of the Enacims. But the Moabites call them Emims. |
In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
And Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze, and who was armed with a new sword, thought to kill David.
They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.
And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”
Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.”’
(It is also counted as a land of Rephaim. Rephaim formerly lived there—but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim—
(For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)
a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the sons of Anak?’