Numbers 13:28

New American Bible - revised edition

However, the people who are living in the land are powerful, and the towns are fortified and very large. Besides, we saw descendants of the Anakim there.

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:16

Dadu, a descendant of the Rephaim, whose bronze spear weighed three hundred shekels, was about to take him captive. Dadu was girt with a new sword and thought he would kill David,

Numbers 13:33

There we saw the Nephilim (the Anakim are from the Nephilim); in our own eyes we seemed like mere grasshoppers, and so we must have seemed to them.”

Deuteronomy 1:28

What shall we meet with up there? Our men have made our hearts melt by saying, ‘The people are bigger and taller than we, and their cities are large and fortified to the sky; besides, we saw the Anakim there.’”

Deuteronomy 2:21

a people great and numerous and as tall as the Anakim. But these, too, the Lord cleared out of the way for the Ammonites, so that they dispossessed them and dwelt in their place.

Deuteronomy 3:5

all these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars—besides a great number of unwalled towns.

Joshua 11:22

so that no Anakim were left in the land of the Israelites. However, some survived in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod.

Joshua 14:12

Now give me this mountain region which the Lord promised me that day, as you yourself heard. True, the Anakim are there, with large fortified cities, but if the Lord is with me I shall be able to dispossess them, as the Lord promised.”

Joshua 15:14

And Caleb dispossessed from there the three Anakim, the descendants of Anak: Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

Judges 1:20

As Moses had commanded, they gave Hebron to Caleb, who then drove the three sons of Anak away from there.