Deuteronomy 2:10
Context2:10 (The Emites 1 used to live there, a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites.
Deuteronomy 2:20
Context2:20 (That also is considered to be a land of the Rephaites. 2 The Rephaites lived there originally; the Ammonites call them Zamzummites. 3
Deuteronomy 2:12
Context2:12 Previously the Horites 4 lived in Seir but the descendants of Esau dispossessed and destroyed them and settled in their place, just as Israel did to the land it came to possess, the land the Lord gave them.) 5


[2:10] 1 sn Emites. These giant people, like the Anakites (Deut 1:28), were also known as Rephaites (v. 11). They appear elsewhere in the narrative of the invasion of the kings of the east where they are said to have lived around Shaveh Kiriathaim, perhaps 9 to 11 mi (15 to 18 km) east of the north end of the Dead Sea (Gen 14:5).
[2:20] 2 sn Rephaites. See note on this word in Deut 2:11.
[2:20] 3 sn Zamzummites. Just as the Moabites called Rephaites by the name Emites, the Ammonites called them Zamzummites (or Zazites; Gen 14:5).
[2:12] 3 sn Horites. Most likely these are the same as the well-known people of ancient Near Eastern texts described as Hurrians. They were geographically widespread and probably non-Semitic. Genesis speaks of them as the indigenous peoples of Edom that Esau expelled (Gen 36:8-19, 31-43) and also as among those who confronted the kings of the east (Gen 14:6).
[2:12] 4 tn Most modern English versions, beginning with the ASV (1901), regard vv. 10-12 as parenthetical to the narrative.