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Rephaim: An Ancient People of Palestine, of Great Stature

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Genesis 14:5 In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
Genesis 15:20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
Deuteronomy 2:11, 20 Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites. / (That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.
Deuteronomy 3:11, 13 (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.) / To the half-tribe of Manasseh I gave the rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og. (The entire region of Argob, the whole territory of Bashan, used to be called the land of the Rephaim.)