Deuteronomy 2:10-12

10-12. These verses are parenthetical. Deuteronomy 2:9 connects with Deuteronomy 2:13.

Emim Hebrew, the terrible ones. See Genesis 14:5.

Which also were accounted giants Hebrew, Rephaim. For the Rephaim see Genesis 14:5. They seem to have been a people of large stature. They included the Emim, Anakim, and Zummim.

Horim Or Horites; dwellers in caves. See Genesis 14:6.

As Israel did unto the land of his possession Keil renders this passage, As Israel has done to the land of his possession, and makes it refer to the land east of the Jordan Gilead and Bashan, which was already conquered and given to the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh. Others view the passage from 10 to 12 as parenthetical, and an explanatory addition by a later hand. “They contain exactly such matter as a modern editor might have given in explanatory footnotes, but which a Jewish reviser, if duly authorized, would feel warranted in writing along with his text.” Speaker’s Commentary. It is, on the whole, most probable that these verses are a parenthetical statement by Moses. There is every reason to believe that he was familiar with the history of the tribes here mentioned.