Numbers 13:28

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Yet the people who live in the land are strong, and the towns are fortified and very large, and besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:16

Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze and who was fitted out with new weapons, said he would kill David.

Numbers 13:33

There we saw the Nephilim (the Anakites come from the Nephilim), and to ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”

Deuteronomy 1:28

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!” ’

Deuteronomy 2:21

a strong and numerous people, as tall as the Anakim. But the Lord destroyed them from before the Ammonites so that they could dispossess them and settle in their place.

Deuteronomy 3:5

All these were fortress towns with high walls, double gates, and bars, besides a great many villages.

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 14:12

So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities; it may be that the Lord will be with me, and I will drive them out, as the Lord said.”

Joshua 15:14

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

Judges 1:20

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