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

² a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, ‘^(A)Who can stand before the sons of Anak?’

²¹ Then Joshua came at that time and cut off ^(A)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 devoted them to destruction with their cities.