John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 2:11
Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims ,.... Because of their bulky size and tall stature; or,"the Rephaim were they accounted, even they as the Anakims;'they were reckoned Rephaim, a name for giants in early times, even as the Anakims were; see Genesis 14:5 . but the Moabites called them Emims ; to distinguish them from the Rephaim; so that it seems this name of Emims was not originally their name, but they are called so by a prolepsis, or anticipation, in Genesis 14:5 ... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 2:8-23
It is observable here that Moses, speaking of the Edomites (Deut. 2:8), calls them, ?our brethren, the children of Esau.? Though they had been unkind to Israel, in refusing them a peaceable passage through their country, yet he calls them brethren. For, though our relations fail in their duty to us, we must retain a sense of the relation, and not be wanting in our duty to them, as there is occasion. Now in these verses we have, I. The account which Moses gives of the origin of the nations of... read more