Deuteronomy 2:10
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
The Emims dwelled therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
American King James Version (AKJV)
The Emims dwelled therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
American Standard Version (ASV)
(The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:
Basic English Translation (BBE)
(In the past the Emim were living there; a great people, equal in numbers to the Anakim and as tall;
Webster's Revision
(The Emims dwelt in it in times past, a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakims;
World English Bible
(The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:
English Revised Version (ERV)
(The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:
Clarke's Deuteronomy 2:10 Bible Commentary
The Emims dwelt therein - Calmet supposes that these people were destroyed in the war made against them by Chedorlaomer and his allies, Genesis 14:5. Lot possessed their country after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. They are generally esteemed as giants; probably they were a hardy, fierce, and terrible people, who lived, like the wandering Arabs, on the plunder of others. This was sufficient to gain them the appellation of giants, or men of prodigious stature. See next verse, Deuteronomy 2:11 (note).
Barnes's Deuteronomy 2:10 Bible Commentary
For the Emims, Horims, and Anakims, see the marginal references. These verses are either parenthetical or the insertion of a later hand.
Wesley's Deuteronomy 2:10 Bible Commentary
2:10 The Emims - Men terrible for stature and strength, as their very name imparts, whose expulsion by the Moabites is here noted as a great encouragement to the Israelites, for whose sake he would much more drive out the wicked and accursed Canaanites.
