Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
This statement belongs to the history of Israel's passage to the east of Moab. The territory of Moab had been given by God to the descendants of Lot, and Israel was forbidden to seize it by force. The people who had formerly lived there were reckoned among the giants, standing on the same level as the Anakim in size and reputation. Emims was the name by which the Moabites knew that giant race.
This statement belongs to the history of Israel's passage to the east of Moab. The territory of Moab had been given by God to the descendants of Lot, and Israel was forbidden to seize it by force. The people who had formerly lived there were reckoned among the giants, standing on the same level as the Anakim in size and reputation. Emims was the name by which the Moabites knew that giant race.