Rephaim
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Rephaim in the Bible Dictionary
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1. An ancient people of Palestine, of great stature
Gen 14:5; 15:20; Deut 2:11, 20; 3:11, 13
5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
Genesis 14:520 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
Genesis 15:2011 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
Deuteronomy 2:1120 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
Deuteronomy 2:2011 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
Deuteronomy 3:1113 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
Deuteronomy 3:13 -
R. V.)
Josh 12:4; 13:12; 17:15
4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
Joshua 12:412 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
Joshua 13:1215 And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
Joshua 17:15 -
2. A valley; the boundary between the territories of Judah and Benjamin
Josh 15:8; 18:16
8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:
Joshua 15:816 And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel,
Joshua 18:16 -
The battleground of David and the Philistines
2 Sam 5:18, 22; 23:13; 1 Chr 11:15; 14:9
18 The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
2 Samuel 5:1822 And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
2 Samuel 5:2213 And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
2 Samuel 23:1315 Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
1 Chronicles 11:159 And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
1 Chronicles 14:9 -
The productiveness of
Isa 17:5
5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
Isaiah 17:5
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
