Numbers 13:33

God's Word

We saw Nephilim there. (The descendants of Anak are Nephilim.) We felt as small as grasshoppers, and that’s how we must have looked to them.”

Cross References

Genesis 6:4

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, as well as later, when the sons of God slept with the daughters of other humans and had children by them. These children were famous long ago.

1 Chronicles 11:23

He killed an eight-foot-tall Egyptian. The Egyptian had a spear like a weaver’s beam in his hand. But Benaiah went to him with a club, grabbed the spear away from him, and killed him with it.

Isaiah 40:22

God is enthroned above the earth, and those who live on it are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the sky like a canopy and spreads it out like a tent to live in.

Numbers 13:22

They went through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai lived. They are descendants of Anak. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Numbers 13:28

But the people who live there are strong, and the cities have walls and are very large. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.

Numbers 14:1

Then all the people in the Israelite community raised their voices and cried out loud all that night.

Deuteronomy 1:28

Where are we going anyway? Our own men have discouraged us by saying, ‘The people there are taller and stronger than we are. The cities are big with sky-high walls! We even saw the people of Anak there.’ ”

Deuteronomy 2:10

The Emites used to live there. These people were as strong, as numerous, and as tall as the people of Anak.

Deuteronomy 3:11

(Of the Rephaim only King Og of Bashan was left. His bed was made of iron and was more than 13 feet long and 6 feet wide. It is still in the Ammonite city of Rabbah.)

Deuteronomy 9:2

Their people are tall and strong. They’re descendants of Anak. You know all about them. You’ve also heard it said, “Who can oppose the descendants of Anak?”

Joshua 11:21

At that time Joshua also wiped out the people of Anak in the mountains, in Hebron, Debir, and Anab, and in all the hills of Judah and Israel. Joshua claimed them for the Lord by destroying them and their cities.

Joshua 14:12

Now give me this mountain region which the Lord spoke of that day. You heard that the people of Anak are still there and that they have large, fortified cities. If the Lord is with me, I can force them out, as he promised.”

Joshua 15:14

Caleb forced out Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, three descendants of Anak from Hebron.

1 Samuel 17:24

When all the men of Israel saw Goliath, they fled from him because they were terrified.

1 Samuel 17:42

When the Philistine got a good look at David, he despised him. After all, David was a young man with a healthy complexion and good looks.