2nd Samuel Chapter 5 verse 18 Holy Bible
Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
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And when the Philistines came, they went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.
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And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
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The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
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The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
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Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
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and the Philistines have come, and are spread out in the valley of Rephaim.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - The valley of Rephaim. This fruitful valley (Isaiah 17:5) is about three miles in length, and two in breadth. Occupying it in vast numbers, the Philistines sent out bodies of men to plunder the whole country, while a sufficient force watched Jerusalem, intending to take it by famine. The Rephaim were an aboriginal race, first mentioned in Genesis 14:5, and evidently in early times very widely spread in Palestine. The idea that they were giants has no more to be said in its favour than that they were ghosts - the meaning of the word in Isaiah 26:14, 19. No sensible philologist will endeavour to explain the names of these primitive races and of their towns by Hebrew roots, though there has been too much of this craze in past times. The Rephaim seem. however, to have been physically a well-developed people, and several races of Canaan of great stature are described in Deuteronomy 2:11 as having belonged to them, as did Og, who was a man of extraordinary dimensions (Deuteronomy 3:11).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) Rephaim.--Translated in Joshua 15:8, the valley of the giants. It was a fruitful valley, stretching some three miles S. and S.W. from Jerusalem, and only separated from the valley of Hinnom by a narrow ridge. It gave ample room for a large encampment, and its situation is an additional proof that the capture of Jerusalem had already been made, since the Philistines came here "to seek David." They had, however, encamped in the same place at earlier times also (see 2Samuel 23:13).
