2 Samuel 5:18 References

18 Now the Philistines came and spread themselves out in athe valley of Rephaim.

a Genesis 14:5, Joshua 15:8, Joshua 17:15, Joshua 18:16

Genesis 14

5 In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, came and defeated the aRephaim in bAshteroth-karnaim and the Zuzim in Ham and the Emim in cShaveh-kiriathaim,

Joshua 15

8 Then the border went up the valley of Ben-hinnom to the slope of the aJebusite on the south (that is, Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain which is before the valley of Hinnom to the west, which is at the end of the valley of Rephaim toward the north.

Joshua 17

15 Joshua said to them, "If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest and clear a place for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you."

Joshua 18

16 The border went down to the edge of the hill which is in the avalley of Ben-hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward; and it went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the slope of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En-rogel.