The Dispossessed People:

The Rephaim

    The name means "giants".  They were early inhabitants of Canaan who were conquered by the Canaanites.

Gn 14:5
In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

Gn 15:18-21
18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
19 the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”

2Sm 5:18,22
18 Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
22 The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

2Sm 23:13
Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

1Ch 11:15
Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

1Ch 14:9
Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim.

Is 17:5
It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.

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