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Deuteronomy 2:20-21

Context

2:20 (That also is considered to be a land of the Rephaites. 1  The Rephaites lived there originally; the Ammonites call them Zamzummites. 2  2:21 They are a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites. But the Lord destroyed the Rephaites 3  in advance of the Ammonites, 4  so they dispossessed them and settled down in their place.

1 sn Rephaites. See note on this word in Deut 2:11.

2 sn Zamzummites. Just as the Moabites called Rephaites by the name Emites, the Ammonites called them Zamzummites (or Zazites; Gen 14:5).

3 tn Heb “them”; the referent (the Rephaites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

4 tn Heb “them”; the referent (the Ammonites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.



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