The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
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The Emims dwelt there in time past,.... We read of them as early as the times of Chedorlaomer, Gen 14:5 when their dwelling was in Kirjathaim, a city which Sihon king of the Amorites took from the…
For the Emims, Horims, and Anakims, see the marginal references. These verses are either parenthetical or the insertion of a later hand.
It is observable here that Moses, speaking of the Edomites (Deu 2:8), calls them, "our brethren, the children of Esau." Though they had been unkind to Israel, in refusing them a peaceable passage…
An archaeological note, rightly put in brackets by R.V., written after the settlement in W. Palestine, as is clear from the end of Deu 2:2. This of course does not in itself prove that the note is by…