John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 2:11

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims, etc.] 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 <011405>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 (<011405>Genesis 14:5) since they had it from the Moabites, a people of a later date.

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