Thematic Bible: Rephaim
Thematic Bible
Rephaim » An ancient people of palestine, of great stature
Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.
In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei; he was one of the remaining Rephaim.
Moses struck them down and drove them out,
Moses struck them down and drove them out,
(Only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed was made of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the Ammonites? It is 13 feet six inches long and six feet wide by a standard measure.)
“If you have so many people,” Joshua replied to them, “go to the forest and clear an area for yourselves there in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, because Ephraim’s hill country is too small for you.”
Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim,
They were also regarded as Rephaim, like the Anakim, though the Moabites called them Emim.
This too used to be regarded as the land of the Rephaim. The Rephaim lived there previously, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummim,
I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh the rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og. The entire region of Argob, the whole territory of Bashan, used to be called the land of the Rephaim.
Rephaim » A valley; the boundary between the territories of judah and benjamin » The battleground of david and the philistines
Three of the 30 leading warriors went down at harvest time and came to David at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was camping in the Valley of Rephaim.
Three of the 30 chief men went down to David, to the rock at the cave of Adullam, while the Philistine army was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
So the Philistines came and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
Rephaim » A valley; the boundary between the territories of judah and benjamin
The border descended to the foot of the hill that faces the Valley of Hinnom at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim. It ran down the Valley of Hinnom toward the south Jebusite slope and downward to En-rogel.
From there the border ascended the Valley of Hinnom to the southern Jebusite slope (that is, Jerusalem) and ascended to the top of the hill that faces the Valley of Hinnom on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.
Rephaim » A valley; the boundary between the territories of judah and benjamin » The productiveness of
his arm harvesting the heads of grain—
and as if one had gleaned heads of grain
in the Valley of Rephaim.