Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;

All the nations here mentioned appear to have been the posterity of ham, who lay under the prophetical curse of noah, which was thus executed upon this part of them by the moabites and edomites

Bible References

All the nations here mentioned appear to have been the posterity of ham, who lay under the prophetical curse of noah, which was thus executed upon this part of them by the moabites and edomites

Deuteronomy 2:11
These also are regarded as Rephaim [an ancient people], as are the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim.
Genesis 14:5
In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the [three] kings who were with him attacked and subdued the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,