Numbers 13:28
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.”
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“Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Howbeit the people that dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“only, surely the people which is dwelling in the land <FI>is<Fi> strong; and the cities are fenced, very great; and also children of Anak we have seen there.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Numbers 13:28 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 13:22They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
- Numbers 13:33We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”
- Deuteronomy 1:28Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”
- Deuteronomy 2:10(The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.
- Deuteronomy 2:21They were a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place,
- Deuteronomy 3:5All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages.
- Deuteronomy 9:1Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
- Joshua 11:22No Anakim were left in the land of the Israelites; only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod did any survive.
- Joshua 14:12Now therefore give me this hill country that the LORD promised me on that day, for you yourself heard then that the Anakim were there, with great and fortified cities. Perhaps with the LORD’s help I will drive them out, as the LORD has spoken.”
- Joshua 15:14And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak—the descendants of Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
- Judges 1:20Just as Moses had promised, Judah gave Hebron to Caleb, who drove out the descendants of the three sons of Anak.
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