Deuteronomy 2:11

_THE EMIMS DWELT THEREIN IN TIMES PAST, A PEOPLE GREAT, AND MANY, AND TALL, AS THE ANAKIMS;_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

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 children of Israel. If the providence of God has done this for Moabites and Ammonites, much more would his promise do it for Israel, his peculiar people. Cautions are given not to meddle with Moabites and Ammonites. Even wicked men must not be wronged. God gives and preserves outward blessings to wicked men; these are not the best things, he has better in store for his own children....

Verse Deuteronomy 2:11. _WHICH ALSO WERE ACCOUNTED GIANTS_] This is not a fortunate version. The word is not _giants_, but רפאים _Rephaim_, the name of a _people_. It appears that the _Emim_, the _Anakim_, and the _Rephaim_, were probably the same people, called by different names in the different countries where they dwelt; for they appear originally to have been a kind of wandering free-booters, who lived by plunder. (See on the preceding verse.) It must be granted, however, that there were several men of this race of extraordinary stature. And hence all gigantic men have been called _Rephaim_. (See on Genesis 6:4, and Genesis 14:5.) But we well know that _fear_ and pub...

For the Emims, Horims, and Anakims, see the marginal references. These verses are either parenthetical or the insertion of a later hand....

EXPOSITION DEUTERONOMY 2:1 THE NEW BEGINNING AND REVIEW OF THE JOURNEYINGS OF ISRAEL FROM KADESH TO THE RIVER ARNON, THE FRONTIER OF THE AMORITES. At this point the language of address is exchanged for that of narrative. The change of subject from "ye abode" to "we turned," became necessary when Moses passed from exhorting and warning the people to narrating what happened after they resumed their journeyings; and gives no support to the notion of some recent German critics, that Moses left Ka

WHICH ALSO WERE ACCOUNTED GIANTS, AS THE ANAKIMS,.... Because of their bulky size and tall stature; or, "the Rephaim were they accounted, even they as the Anakims;'' they were reckoned Rephaim, a name for giants in early times, even as the Anakims were; see Genesis 14:5 BUT THE MOABITES CALLED THEM EMIMS; to distinguish them from the Rephaim; so that it seems this name of Emims was not originally their name, but they are called so by a prolepsis, or anticipation, in Genesis 14:5 since they had it from the Moabites, a people of a later date....

_3. AFTER THE FORTY YEARS AND FROM CONFLICT TO CONQUEST_ CHAPTER 2 _ 1. From Kadesh to the land of the Amorites (Deuteronomy 2:1)_ 2. The command to possess (Deuteronomy 2:24) 3. The conquest of Sihon (Deuteronomy 2:26) The many days in the first verse are the thirty-eight years. We must notice the little word “we.” “We turned and took our journey into the wilderness.” Moses, Aaron, his sons, Joshua, Caleb and the faithful Levites turned back with the unfaithful, murmuring Israelites. Moses and all who had not shared in the unbelief of the people submitted to the sovereign will of the Lord. How strange it would have been if they had complained in sharing in

FROM KADESH-BARNEA TO WADY-ZERED. The present passage seems to contradict the parallel narrative in Numbers 20 f. Deuteronomy 2:1_ b. i.e._ we lingered in the neighbourhood of Mt. Seir a good length of time, viz. thirty-eight years (Deuteronomy 2:7; Deuteronomy 2:14). Deuteronomy 2:4. border: better, bordered territory, the Heb. word means both. YOUR BRETHREN: _ i.e._ kinsmen (see Genesis 25:23; Genesis 36:43

GIANTS. Hebrew. _Rephaim,_ another name for the _Nephilim,_ from one Rapha. See App-25. Connected with _healing,_ and with Egypt (Genesis 50:2). See App-23....

Duet Deuteronomy 1:6 to Deuteronomy 3:29. Historical Part of the First Introductory Discourse Spoken in the land of Moab (Deuteronomy 1:5) in _the gai_or _glen, over against Beth Pe-or_(Deuteronomy 3:29), a review of Israel's experiences since they left Ḥoreb. In the Plur. form of address except for the following fragments Deuteronomy 1:8; Deuteronomy 1:21;...