Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 2:10
Context2:10 (The Emites 1 used to live there, a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites.
Deuteronomy 2:21
Context2:21 They are a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites. But the Lord destroyed the Rephaites 2 in advance of the Ammonites, 3 so they dispossessed them and settled down in their place.
Deuteronomy 26:5
Context26:5 Then you must affirm before the Lord your God, “A wandering 4 Aramean 5 was my ancestor, 6 and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number, 7 but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.
Deuteronomy 7:17
Context7:17 If you think, “These nations are more numerous than I – how can I dispossess them?”
Deuteronomy 7:1
Context7:1 When the Lord your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you – Hittites, 8 Girgashites, 9 Amorites, 10 Canaanites, 11 Perizzites, 12 Hivites, 13 and Jebusites, 14 seven 15 nations more numerous and powerful than you –
Deuteronomy 6:21
Context6:21 you must say to them, 16 “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt in a powerful way. 17
Deuteronomy 9:1
Context9:1 Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications. 18
Deuteronomy 9:14
Context9:14 Stand aside 19 and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory, 20 and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are.”
Deuteronomy 1:28
Context1:28 What is going to happen to us? Our brothers have drained away our courage 21 by describing people who are more numerous 22 and taller than we are, and great cities whose defenses appear to be as high as heaven 23 itself! Moreover, they said they saw 24 Anakites 25 there.”
[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).
[2:21] 2 tn Heb “them”; the referent (the Rephaites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[2:21] 3 tn Heb “them”; the referent (the Ammonites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[26:5] 3 tn Though the Hebrew term אָבַד (’avad) generally means “to perish” or the like (HALOT 2-3 s.v.; BDB 1-2 s.v.; cf. KJV “a Syrian ready to perish”), a meaning “to go astray” or “to be lost” is also attested. The ambivalence in the Hebrew text is reflected in the versions where LXX Vaticanus reads ἀπέβαλεν (apebalen, “lose”) for a possibly metathesized reading found in Alexandrinus, Ambrosianus, ἀπέλαβεν (apelaben, “receive”); others attest κατέλειπεν (kateleipen, “leave, abandon”). “Wandering” seems to suit best the contrast with the sedentary life Israel would enjoy in Canaan (v. 9) and is the meaning followed by many English versions.
[26:5] 4 sn A wandering Aramean. This is a reference to Jacob whose mother Rebekah was an Aramean (Gen 24:10; 25:20, 26) and who himself lived in Aram for at least twenty years (Gen 31:41-42).
[26:5] 6 tn Heb “sojourned there few in number.” The words “with a household” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarity.
[7:1] 4 sn Hittites. The center of Hittite power was in Anatolia (central modern Turkey). In the Late Bronze Age (1550-1200
[7:1] 5 sn Girgashites. These cannot be ethnically identified and are unknown outside the OT. They usually appear in such lists only when the intention is to have seven groups in all (see also the note on the word “seven” later in this verse).
[7:1] 6 sn Amorites. Originally from the upper Euphrates region (Amurru), the Amorites appear to have migrated into Canaan beginning in 2200
[7:1] 7 sn Canaanites. These were the indigenous peoples of the land, going back to the beginning of recorded history (ca. 3000
[7:1] 8 sn Perizzites. This is probably a subgroup of Canaanites (Gen 13:7; 34:30).
[7:1] 9 sn Hivites. These are usually thought to be the same as the Hurrians, a people well-known in ancient Near Eastern texts. They are likely identical to the Horites (see note on the term “Horites” in Deut 2:12).
[7:1] 10 sn Jebusites. These inhabited the hill country, particularly in and about Jerusalem (cf. Num 13:29; Josh 15:8; 2 Sam 5:6; 24:16).
[7:1] 11 sn Seven. This is an ideal number in the OT, one symbolizing fullness or completeness. Therefore, the intent of the text here is not to be precise and list all of Israel’s enemies but simply to state that Israel will have a full complement of foes to deal with. For other lists of Canaanites, some with fewer than seven peoples, see Exod 3:8; 13:5; 23:23, 28; 33:2; 34:11; Deut 20:17; Josh 3:10; 9:1; 24:11. Moreover, the “Table of Nations” (Gen 10:15-19) suggests that all of these (possibly excepting the Perizzites) were offspring of Canaan and therefore Canaanites.
[6:21] 5 tn Heb “to your son.”
[6:21] 6 tn Heb “by a strong hand.” The image is that of a warrior who, with weapon in hand, overcomes his enemies. The
[9:1] 6 tn Heb “fortified to the heavens” (so NRSV); NLT “cities with walls that reach to the sky.” This is hyperbole.
[9:14] 7 tn Heb “leave me alone.”
[9:14] 8 tn Heb “from under heaven.”
[1:28] 8 tn Heb “have caused our hearts to melt.”
[1:28] 9 tn Heb “greater.” Many English versions understand this to refer to physical size or strength rather than numbers (cf. “stronger,” NAB, NIV, NRSV; “bigger,” NASB).
[1:28] 10 tn Or “as the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
