Numbers 13:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.)

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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 tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.

Genesis 23:2

And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

2 Samuel 2:1

After this David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?” The Lord said to him, “Go up.” David said, “To which shall I go up?” He said, “To Hebron.”

2 Samuel 2:11

The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

2 Samuel 21:16

Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze and who was fitted out with new weapons, said he would kill David.

Psalm 78:12

In the sight of their ancestors he worked marvels in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.

Psalm 78:43

when he displayed his signs in Egypt and his miracles in the fields of Zoan.

Isaiah 19:11

Clearly the princes of Zoan are foolish; the wise counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the sages, a descendant of ancient kings”?

Isaiah 19:13

The princes of Zoan have become fools, and the princes of Memphis are deluded; those who are the cornerstones of its tribes have led Egypt astray.

Isaiah 30:4

For though his officials are at Zoan and his envoys reach Hanes,

Numbers 13:17

Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up there into the Negeb, and go up into the hill country,

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 9:2

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?’

Joshua 10:36

Then Joshua went up with all Israel from Eglon to Hebron; they assaulted it

Joshua 21:13

To the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, the city of refuge for the slayer, with its pasturelands, Libnah with its pasturelands,

Judges 1:10

Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.

1 Samuel 30:31

in Hebron, all the places where David and his men had roamed.