Deuteronomy 9:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Some of these nations are descendants of the Anakim. You know how tall and strong they are, and you've heard that no one can defeat them in battle.

Cross References

Job 11:10

If God puts you in prison or drags you to court, what can you do?

Exodus 9:11

The magicians were suffering so much from the sores, that they could not even come to Moses.

Daniel 11:16

The king who invaded from the north will do as he pleases, and he will even capture and destroy the holy land.

Daniel 8:4

The ram went charging towards the west, the north, and the south. No other animals were strong enough to oppose him, and nothing could save them from his power. So he did as he pleased and became even more powerful.

Amos 2:9

Israel, the Amorites were there when you entered Canaan. They were tall as cedars and strong as oaks. But I wiped them out— I destroyed their branches and their roots.

Nahum 1:6

Who can stand the heat of his furious anger? It flashes out like fire and shatters stones.

Numbers 13:22

As they went through the Southern Desert, they came to the town of Hebron, which was seven years older than the Egyptian town of Zoan. In Hebron, they saw the three Anakim clans of Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai.

Numbers 13:28

But the people who live there are strong, and their cities are large and walled. We even saw the three Anakim clans.

Numbers 13:33

In fact, we saw the Nephilim who are the ancestors of the Anakim. They were so big that we felt as small as grasshoppers.”

Deuteronomy 1:28

We are afraid, because the men who explored the land told us that the cities are large, with walls that reach to the sky. The people who live there are taller and stronger than we are, and some of them are Anakim. We have nowhere to go.”

Deuteronomy 2:21

The Zamzummim were a large and powerful tribe and were as tall as the Anakim. But the LORD helped the Ammonites, and they killed many of the Zamzummim and forced the rest to leave. Then the Ammonites settled there.

Joshua 11:21

During this same time, Joshua and his army killed the Anakim from the northern and southern hill country. They also destroyed the towns where the Anakim had lived, including Hebron, Debir, and Anab.

Joshua 11:22

There were not any Anakim left in the regions where the Israelites lived, although there were still some in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.

Joshua 15:14

Caleb attacked Hebron and forced the three Anakim clans of Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai to leave.