John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 2:20

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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That also was accounted a land of giants, etc.] Ammon was so reckoned as well as Moab, (<050210>Deuteronomy 2:10,11) giants dwelt therein in old time; the Rephaim dwelt there, as they did also in Ashteroth Karnaim, (<011405>Genesis 14:5) and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims; they are thought to be the same with the Zuzims in (<011405>Genesis 14:5) who had their name, as Hillerus f27 thinks, from Mezuzah, a door post, from their tall stature, being as high as one; and for a like reason Saph the giant might have his name, (<102118>2 Samuel 21:18). The word Zamzummims, according to him f28, signifies contrivers of evil and terrible things; they were inventors of wickedness, crafty and subtle in forming wicked and mischievous designs, which struck terror into people, and made them formidable to them.

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