Rephaite

thumb|Musa va 'Uj, a 15th-century manuscript painting from Iran or Iraq, depicting the Rephaite Og. In the Hebrew Bible, as well as non-Jewish ancient texts from the region, the Northwest Semitic term Rephaite (from Repha'im, in Hebrew: רְפָאִים, rəp̄āʾīm), refers to a people of greater-than-average height and stature in Deuteronomy 2:10-11, or departed spirits in the afterlife, Sheol as written in the following scriptures: Isaiah 26:14; Psalms 88:11, and Proverbs 9:18. Quotes about Long dead ancestors The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims. Book of Deuteronomy 2:10-11 KJV. Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. Book of Isaiah 14:9-11 KJV. They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. [...] Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. Book of Isaiah 26:14:19 KJV. The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. Book of Psalms 88:11 KJV. But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. Book of Proverbs 9:18 KJV. The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead. Book of Proverbs 21:16 KJV. Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof. Book of Job 26:5 KJV. And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians. 2 Chronicles 16:12 KJV. Canaanite people group And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emins in Shaveh Kiriathaim,... Book of Genesis 14:5 KJV. And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,... Book of Genesis 5:20 KJV. For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man. Book of Deuteronomy 3:11 KJV. And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,... Book of Joshua 12:4 KJV. All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out. Book of Joshua 13:12 KJV. And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward: Book of Joshua 15:8 KJV. And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee. Book of Joshua 17:15 KJV. And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel,... Book of Joshua 18:16 KJV. The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. [...] And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. 2 Samuel 5:18,22 KJV. And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim. 2 Samuel 23:13 KJV. Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 1 Chronicles 11:15 KJV. And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. 1 Chronicles 14:9 KJV. And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, that was of the children of the giant: and they were subdued. 1 Chronicles 20:4 KJV. See also Anakim Devarim Nephilim External links Category:Book of Isaiah