The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 2:20-23
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. read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 2:20
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 , ... read more