Numbers 13:33

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

We saw the giant Nephilim people there! (The descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim.) We felt like little grasshoppers. Yes, we were like grasshoppers to them!”

Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:28

Where can we go now? The men we sent have frightened us with their report. They said, “The people there are bigger and taller than we are. The cities are big and have walls as high as the sky. And we saw giants there!”’

Isaiah 40:22

It is the Lord who sits above the circle of the earth. And compared to him, people are like grasshoppers. He rolled open the skies like a piece of cloth. He stretched out the skies like a tent to sit under.

1 Samuel 17:42

Goliath looked at David with disgust. He saw that David was only a handsome, healthy boy.

Deuteronomy 9:2

The people there are tall and strong. They are the Anakites. You know about them. You heard our spies say, ‘No one can win against the Anakites.’

Deuteronomy 3:11

(Og was the king of Bashan. He was one of the few Rephaites still alive. His bed was made from iron, and it was over 13 feet long and 6 feet wide. The bed is still in the city of Rabbah, where the Ammonites live.)

1 Chronicles 11:23

And Benaiah killed a big Egyptian soldier. That man was about 7 1/2 feet tall. The Egyptian had a spear that was very large and heavy. It was as big as the pole on a weaver’s loom. Benaiah had only a club. He grabbed the spear in the Egyptian’s hands and took it away from him. Then Benaiah killed the Egyptian with his own spear.

Deuteronomy 2:10

(In the past, the Emites lived in Ar. They were strong people, and there were many of them. They were very tall, like the Anakites.

Numbers 13:22

They entered the country through the Negev and went to Hebron. (The town of Hebron was built seven years before the town of Zoan in Egypt.) Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai lived there. These men were descendants of Anak.

Numbers 13:28

But the people living there are very powerful. The cities are very large and strongly defended. We even saw some Anakites there.

Numbers 14:1

That night all the people in the camp began shouting loudly.

Joshua 11:21

The Anakites lived in the hill country in the area of Hebron, Debir, Anab, and Judah. Joshua fought them and completely destroyed all the people and their towns.

Joshua 14:12

So give me the hill country that the Lord promised me that day long ago. At that time you heard that the strong Anakites lived there and the cities were very big and well protected. But now, maybe the Lord will be with me, and I will take that land just as the Lord said.”

Joshua 15:14

Caleb forced the three Anakite families living in Hebron to leave there. Those families were Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai. They were from the family of Anak.

1 Samuel 17:24

The Israelite soldiers saw Goliath and ran away. They were all afraid of him.