Deuteronomy Chapter 2 verse 20 Holy Bible
(That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim dwelt therein aforetime; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
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(That land is said to have been a land of the Rephaim, for Rephaim had been living there in earlier times, but they were named Zamzummim by the Ammonites;
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(That also is reckoned a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in time past, and the Ammonites call them Zamzummim;
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(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
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(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt in it in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
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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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`A land of Rephaim it is reckoned, even it; Rephaim dwelt in it formerly, and the Ammonites call them Zamzummim;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 20-23. - Another parenthetical insertion, containing some ethnographical notices, intended, probably, to confirm the assertion that to the children of Ammon God had given their land for a possession. There is no sufficient reason for supposing that this paragraph is an interpolation, or gloss, inserted by some later writer. It lay as much in the way of Moses to introduce such ethnographical notices as in that of any writer of a later age. Verse 20. - Before the Ammonites, the laud was occupied by a gigantic race, called by them, Zamzummim (probably noisy ones, from זָמַם to hum, mutter; or, as the verb also signifies, to muse or meditate, perhaps moody ones; whether the same as the Zuzim of Genesis 14:5 - LXX., ἔθνη ἰσχυρά, as if from זוּז, to overflow, to abound - is uncertain). The colossal stone monuments, resembling what in Europe are known by the Celtic names of dolmen, menhir, and cromlech, still to be found in the land of Moab, are supposed to be the work of these aboriginal inhabitants of the country, the gigantic Emim and Zamzummim. This giant tribe the Lord had destroyed before the Ammonites, just as he had destroyed the Horim before the children of Esau in Seir.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) In old time.--See Genesis 14Zamzummims = Zuzims (Genesis 14:5).