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 people, as well as the Anakites, are also considered Rephaites; the Moabites call them Emites.
Genesis 14:5
In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings who were his allies came and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

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