The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them and you have heard it said about them, “Who can stand up to the sons of Anak? ”
They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were living. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
The king of the North who comes against him will do whatever he wants, and no one can oppose him. He will establish himself in the beautiful land , with total destruction in his hand.
I saw the ram charging to the west, the north, and the south. No animal could stand against him, and there was no rescue from his power. He did whatever he wanted and became great.
He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.
a great and numerous people, tall as the Anakim. The Lord destroyed the Rephaim at the advance of the Ammonites, so that they drove them out and settled in their place.
We even saw the Nephilim there #– #the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim! To ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and we must have seemed the same to them.’
Where can we go? Our brothers have made us lose heart, , saying: The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, fortified to the heavens. We also saw the descendants of the Anakim there.”
At that time Joshua proceeded to exterminate the Anakim from the hill country #– #Hebron, Debir, Anab #– #all the hill country of Judah and of Israel. Joshua completely destroyed them with their cities.
Yet I destroyed the Amorite as Israel advanced; his height was like the cedars, and he was as sturdy as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.