²⁸ Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt in fear. They say, ‘The people are stronger and taller^(A) than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the sky. We even saw the Anakites^(B) there.’”

¹⁰ (The Emites^(A) used to live there—a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites.^{(B) 11} Like the Anakites, they too were considered Rephaites,^(C) but the Moabites called them Emites.

²¹ They were a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites.^(A) The Lord destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place.

² The people are strong and tall—Anakites! You know about them and have heard it said: “Who can stand up against the Anakites?”^(A)

²² They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron,^(A) where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai,^(B) the descendants of Anak,^(C) lived. (Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)^(D)

²⁸ But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large.^(A) We even saw descendants of Anak^(B) there.^(C)

³³ We saw the Nephilim^(A) there (the descendants of Anak^(B) come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers^(C) in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”

²¹ At that time Joshua went and destroyed the Anakites^(A) from the hill country: from Hebron, Debir^(B) and Anab,^(C) from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua totally destroyed them and their towns. ²² No Anakites were left in Israelite territory; only in Gaza,^(D) Gath^(E) and Ashdod^(F) did any survive.

¹² Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day.^(A) You yourself heard then that the Anakites^(B) were there and their cities were large and fortified,^(C) but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.”