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
And they will be reckoned Rephaims also, as the Anakims; and the Moabites will call them Emims.
Genesis 14:5
And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and they shall smite the Rephaims in Ashtaroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim.