Numbers 13:33

New Century Version

We saw the Nephilim people there. (The Anakites come from the Nephilim people.) We felt like grasshoppers, and we looked like grasshoppers to them.”

Cross References

Genesis 6:4

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also later. That was when the sons of God had sexual relations with the daughters of human beings. These women gave birth to children, who became famous and were the mighty warriors of long ago.

1 Chronicles 11:23

Benaiah killed an Egyptian who was about seven and one-half feet tall and had a spear as large as a weaver’s rod. Benaiah had a club, but he grabbed the spear from the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.

Isaiah 40:22

God sits on his throne above the circle of the earth, and compared to him, people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the skies like a piece of cloth and spreads them out like a tent to sit under.

Numbers 13:22

They went through the southern area to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak lived. (The city of Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Numbers 13:28

But the people who live there are strong. Their cities are walled and very large. We even saw some Anakites there.

Numbers 14:1

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

Deuteronomy 1:28

Where can we go now? The spies we sent have made us afraid, because they said, ‘The people there are stronger and taller than we are. The cities are big, with walls up to the sky. And we saw the Anakites there!’ ”

Deuteronomy 2:10

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

Deuteronomy 3:11

(Only Og king of Bashan was left of the few Rephaites. His bed was made of iron, and it was more than thirteen feet long and six feet wide! It is still in the Ammonite city of Rabbah.)

Deuteronomy 9:2

The people there are Anakites, who are strong and tall. You know about them, and you have heard it said: “No one can stop the Anakites.”

Joshua 11:21

Now Joshua fought the Anakites who lived in the mountains of Hebron, Debir, Anab, Judah, and Israel, and he completely destroyed them and their towns.

Joshua 14:12

So give me the mountain country the Lord promised me that day long ago. Back then you heard that the Anakite people lived there and the cities were large and well protected. But now with the Lord helping me, I will force them out, just as the Lord said.”

Joshua 15:14

Caleb forced out the three Anakite families living in Hebron: Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak.

1 Samuel 17:24

When the Israelites saw Goliath, they were very much afraid and ran away.

1 Samuel 17:42

When Goliath looked at David and saw that he was only a boy, tanned and handsome, he looked down on David with disgust.