Deuteronomy 1:28

Modern English Version

Where shall we go up? Our brothers have discouraged our hearts, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and walled up to heaven. And moreover, we have seen the sons of the Anakites there.’ ”

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top will reach to heaven, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

Exodus 15:15

Then the chiefs of Edom were amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling takes hold of them; all the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.

Isaiah 13:7

Therefore all hands shall be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt,

Ezekiel 21:7

It shall be when they say to you, “Why do you groan?” that you shall answer, “Because of the news that is coming. And every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water. Behold, it comes and shall be brought to pass,” says the Lord God.

Deuteronomy 1:29

Then I said to you, “Do not be terrified, or afraid of them.

Deuteronomy 2:10

(The Emites lived there in times past, a people as great and as many and as tall as the Anakites.

Deuteronomy 20:20

However, you may destroy and cut down only the trees which you know are not fruit trees, so that you may build siege engines against the city that makes war with you until it falls.

Deuteronomy 20:8

The officers are to speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart faint as well as his heart.”

Deuteronomy 7:17

If you say in your heart, “These nations are greater than I—how can I dispossess them?”

Joshua 11:22

No Anakites were left in the land of the Israelites, but they did remain in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.

Joshua 14:8

My companions who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt, but I wholeheartedly followed after the Lord my God.

Joshua 15:14

Caleb drove out from there three Anakites: Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, descendants of Anak.

Joshua 2:11

Our hearts melted when we heard these things, and no man had any breath in him because of you, for the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on earth below.

Joshua 2:24

They said to Joshua, “The Lord has surely given the whole land into our hands! Indeed, all the inhabitants of the land melt in terror before us.”

Joshua 2:9

She said to the men, “I know that the Lord has given you the land, for dread from you has fallen upon us, and all the inhabitants of the land melt in terror before you.

Judges 1:10

Judah went against the Canaanites living in Hebron (previously the name of Hebron was Kiriath-arba) and they struck down Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

Judges 1:20

They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, and he drove out the three sons of Anak.