DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON Deuteronomy 2:10 The people whom God had removed to give Moab its land included the very people Israel now feared (see Deuteronomy 1:28). Israel should trust God instead of fearing these people. Rephaim, like Anakim, were so tall that the people of Israel thought of them as “giants” (see Deuteronomy 2:20; Deuteronomy 3:11, Deuteronomy 3:13). Edom’s success is a model to encourage Israel. The land of their possession may refer only to the Transjordanian land Israel already possessed (Deuteronomy 2:24). Horites. See Genesis 14:6; Genesis 36:20.

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