²⁸ Nevertheless the ^(A)people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of ^(B)Anak there.

Israel’s Rebellions Reviewed^(A)

9 “Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven, ² a people great and tall, the ^(B)descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’

²⁸ Where can we go up? Our brethren have ^[a]discouraged our hearts, saying, ^(A)“The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the ^(B)Anakim there.” ’

²² None of the Anakim were left in the land of the children of Israel; they remained only ^(A)in Gaza, in Gath, ^(B)and in Ashdod.

³³ There we saw the ^[a]giants (^(A)the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were ^(B)like^[b] grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were ^(C)in their sight.”

¹⁴ Caleb drove out ^(A)the three sons of Anak from there: ^(B)Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

⁵ All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many rural towns.

^21 (A)a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anakim. But the Lord destroyed them before them, and they dispossessed them and dwelt in their place,

^10 (A)(The Emim had dwelt there in times past, a people as great and numerous and tall as ^(B)the Anakim. ¹¹ They were also regarded as ^[a]giants, like the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim.

^20 (A)And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said. Then he ^[a]expelled from there the ^(B)three sons of Anak.