Numbers 13:33

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Genesis 6:4

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown.

1 Chronicles 11:23

And he killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits tall. The Egyptian had in his hand a spear like a weaver’s beam, but Benaiah went against him with a staff, snatched the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.

Isaiah 40:22

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them like a tent to live in,

Numbers 13:22

They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron, and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the Anakites, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Numbers 13:28

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.

Numbers 14:1

Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.

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 2:10

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

Deuteronomy 3:11

(Now only King Og of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. In fact, his bed, an iron bed, can still be seen in Rabbah of the Ammonites. By the common cubit it is nine cubits long and four cubits wide.)

Deuteronomy 9:2

a strong and tall people, the offspring of the Anakim, whom you know. You have heard it said, ‘Who can stand up to the Anakim?’

Joshua 11:21

At that time Joshua came and wiped out the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel; Joshua utterly destroyed them with their towns.

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.

1 Samuel 17:24

All the Israelites, when they saw the man, fled from him and were very much afraid.

1 Samuel 17:42

When the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was only a youth, ruddy and handsome in appearance.