Numbers 13:22 - Easy To Read Version

²² They entered the country through the Negev [172] and went to Hebron. (The town of Hebron was built seven years before the town of Zoan in Egypt.) Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai lived there. These men were descendants [173] of Anak.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² And then went up into the South (the Negeb) and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai [probably three tribes of] the sons of Anak were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

American Standard Version (1901)

²² And they went up by the South, and came unto Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Common English Bible

²² They went up into the arid southern plain and entered Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of the Anakites, lived. (Hebron was built seven years before Tanis in Egypt.)

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² And when they had ascended, they explored the land from the desert of Sin, all the way to Rehob, as one enters into Hamath.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² And when they were gone up, they viewed the land, from the desert of Sin, unto Rohob, as you enter into Emath.

Numbers 13:22 Cross References

Genesis 13:18

So Abram moved his tents. He went to live near Mamre’s big trees. This was near the city of Hebron. At that place Abram built an altar [78] for worshiping the Lord.

Genesis 23:2

She died in the city of Kiriath Arba (Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham was very sad and cried for her there.

2 Samuel 2:1

Later David asked the Lord for advice. David said, “Should I take control [6] of any of the cities of Judah?”

2 Samuel 2:11

David was king in Hebron. David ruled over the family group of Judah for seven years and six months.

2 Samuel 21:16

Ishbi Benob was one of the giants. [126] Ishbi Benob’s spear weighed about 7 1/2 pounds. [127] Ishbi Benob had a new sword. He tried to kill David.

Psalm 78:12

God showed their fathers\par his great power at Zoan in Egypt.\par

Psalm 78:43

They forgot the miracles in Egypt,\par the miracles in the fields of Zoan.\par

Isaiah 19:11

“The leaders of the city Zoan are fools. Pharaoh’s ‘wise advisers’ give wrong advice. Those leaders say they are wise. They say they are from the old family of the kings. But they are not wise like they think.”

Isaiah 19:13

The leaders of Zoan have been fooled. The leaders of Noph have believed false things. So the leaders lead Egypt the wrong way.

Isaiah 30:4

Your leaders have gone to Zoan {\cf2\super [273]} and your ambassadors have gone to Hanes. {\cf2\super [274]}

Numbers 13:17

When Moses was sending them out to explore Canaan, he said, “Go through the Negev [171] and then into the hill country.

Numbers 13:28

But the people living there are very powerful. The cities are very large. The cities are strongly defended. We even saw some Anakite [177] people there.

Numbers 13:33

We saw the giant Nephilim [179] people there! (The descendants [180] of Anak come from the Nephilim people.) They looked at us like we were little grasshoppers. Yes, we were like grasshoppers to them!”

Deuteronomy 9:2

The people there are tall and strong. They are the Anakites. [56] You know about those people. You heard our spies say, ‘No person can win against the Anakites.’

Joshua 10:36

Then Joshua and all the people of Israel traveled from Eglon to Hebron. Then they attacked Hebron.

Joshua 21:13

So they gave the city of Hebron to Aaron’s descendants. (Hebron was a city of safety.) They also gave Aaron’s descendants the towns of Libnah,

Judges 1:10

Then the men of Judah went to fight against the Canaanite people that lived in the city of Hebron. (Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba.) The men of Judah defeated the men named Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai. [4]

1 Samuel 30:31

and Hebron. David sent some of those things to the leaders in all the other places where David and his men had been.