²⁸ Where can we go up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are bigger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified to heaven. And besides, we saw ^(A)the sons of the Anakim there.”’

Israel Provoked God

9 “Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess ^(A)nations greater and mightier than you, great cities ^[a](B)fortified to heaven, ² a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, ‘^(C)Who can stand before the sons of Anak?’