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.