Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 2:10 
Context2:10 (The Emites 1 used to live there, a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites.
Deuteronomy 2:21
Context2:21 They are a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites. But the Lord destroyed the Rephaites 2 in advance of the Ammonites, 3 so they dispossessed them and settled down in their place.
1 sn Emites. These giant people, like the Anakites (Deut 1:28), were also known as Rephaites (v. 11). They appear elsewhere in the narrative of the invasion of the kings of the east where they are said to have lived around Shaveh Kiriathaim, perhaps 9 to 11 mi (15 to 18 km) east of the north end of the Dead Sea (Gen 14:5).
2 tn Heb “them”; the referent (the Rephaites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “them”; the referent (the Ammonites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
