Deuteronomy 9:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² a strong and tall people, the offspring of the Anakim, whom you know. You have heard it said, ‘Who can stand up to the Anakim?’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² a people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, Who can stand before the sons of Anak?

American Standard Version (1901)

² a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the sons of Anak?

Common English Bible

² These people are large and tall—they are the Anakim. You know and have heard what people say: “Who can stand up to the Anakim?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² a people great and lofty, the sons of the Anakim, whom you yourselves have seen and heard, against whom no one is able to stand.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² A People great and tall, the sons of the Enacims, whom thou hast seen, and heard of, against whom no man is able to stand.

Deuteronomy 9:2 Cross References

Job 11:10

If he passes through and imprisons and assembles for judgment, who can hinder him?

Exodus 9:11

The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils afflicted the magicians as well as all the Egyptians.

Daniel 11:16

But he who comes against him shall take the actions he pleases, and no one shall withstand him. He shall take a position in the beautiful land, and all of it shall be in his power.

Daniel 8:4

I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward. All beasts were powerless to withstand it, and no one could rescue from its power; it did as it pleased and became strong.

Amos 2:9

Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of cedars and who was as strong as oaks; I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.

Nahum 1:6

Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and by him the rocks are broken in pieces.

Numbers 13:22

They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron, and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the Anakites, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Numbers 13:28

Yet the people who live in the land are strong, and the towns are fortified and very large, and besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.

Numbers 13:33

There we saw the Nephilim (the Anakites come from the Nephilim), and to ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”

Deuteronomy 1:28

Where are we headed? Our kindred have made our hearts melt by reporting, “The people are stronger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified up to heaven! We actually saw there the offspring of the Anakim!” ’

Deuteronomy 2:21

a strong and numerous people, as tall as the Anakim. But the Lord destroyed them from before the Ammonites so that they could dispossess them and settle in their place.

Deuteronomy 7:24

He will hand their kings over to you, and you shall blot out their name from under heaven; no one will be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.

Joshua 11:21

At that time Joshua came and wiped out the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel; Joshua utterly destroyed them with their towns.

Joshua 11:22

None of the Anakim was left in the land of the Israelites; some remained only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod.

Joshua 15:14

And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak.