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(That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim lived therein before; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
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Who Were the Zamzummim?
Commentators unanimously identify the Zamzummim as a giant race known as the Rephaim. They are believed to be the same people called the 'Zuzims' in Genesis 14:5. One scholar suggests their name means 'contrivers of evil,' highlighting their fearsome reputation as wicked and formidable people whom the Ammonites, by God's power, displaced.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
These verses, like (Deuteronomy 2:10–12), are in all likelihood an addition made by a later reviser.
([Reference Deuteronomy 2:2…
19th Century
Anglican
In old time. See Genesis 14:0.
Zamzummims = Zuzims (Genesis 14:5).
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
That also was accounted a land of giants Ammon was so reckoned as well as Moab, (Deuteronomy 2:10[Refere…
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We have the origin of the Moabites, Edomites, and Ammonites. Moses also gives an instance older than any of these: the Caphtorims drove the Avims o…
