Deuteronomy 1:28

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Where are we headed? Our kindred have made our hearts melt by reporting, “The people are stronger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified up to heaven! We actually saw there the offspring of the Anakim!” ’

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

Exodus 15:15

Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed; trembling seized the leaders of Moab; all the inhabitants of Canaan melted away.

Isaiah 13:7

Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every human heart will melt,

Ezekiel 21:7

And when they say to you, “Why do you moan?” you shall say, “Because of the news that has come. Every heart will melt, and all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will turn to water. See, it comes and it will be fulfilled,” says the Lord God.

Deuteronomy 1:29

I said to you, ‘Have no dread or fear of them.

Deuteronomy 2:10

(The Emim—a large and numerous people, as tall as the Anakim—had formerly inhabited it.

Deuteronomy 20:20

You may destroy only the trees that you know do not produce food; you may cut them down for use in building siegeworks against the town that makes war with you, until it falls.

Deuteronomy 20:8

The officers shall continue to address the troops, saying, ‘Is anyone afraid or disheartened? He should go back to his house, or he might cause the heart of his comrades to melt like his own.’

Deuteronomy 7:17

“If you say to yourself, ‘These nations are more numerous than I; how can I dispossess them?’

Joshua 11:22

None of the Anakim was left in the land of the Israelites; some remained only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod.

Joshua 14:8

But my companions who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, yet I wholeheartedly followed the Lord my God.

Joshua 15:14

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

Joshua 2:11

As soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no courage left in any of us because of you. The Lord your God is indeed God in heaven above and on earth below.

Joshua 2:24

They said to Joshua, “Truly the Lord has given all the land into our hands; moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt in fear before us.”

Joshua 2:9

and said to the men, “I know that the Lord has given you the land and that dread of you has fallen on us and that all the inhabitants of the land melt in fear before you.

Judges 1:10

Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.

Judges 1:20

Hebron was given to Caleb, as Moses had said, and he drove out from it the three sons of Anak.