Deuteronomy 2:21 “They were a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites. But the LO…”

Deuteronomy 2:21

They were a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:

World English Bible

a great people, many, and tall, as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them from before Israel, and they succeeded them, and lived in their place,

American Standard Version

a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Jehovah destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead;

Geneva Bible 1599

A people that was great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims: but the Lord destroyed them before them, and they succeeded them in their inheritance, and dwelt in their stead:

Darby Translation

a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakim; and Jehovah destroyed them before them, and they dispossessed them, and dwelt in their stead;

Young's Literal Translation

a people great, and numerous, and tall, as the Anakim, and Jehovah destroyeth them before them, and they dispossess them, and dwell in their stead,

Bible in Basic English

They were a great people, tall as the Anakim, and equal to them in number; but the Lord sent destruction on them and the children of Ammon took their place, living in their land;

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Cross references

“great”

Deuteronomy 1:28 Deuteronomy 3:11 Deuteronomy 2:10 Deuteronomy 2:11

Deuteronomy 1:28 · BSB

Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”

Deuteronomy 3:11 · BSB

(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

Deuteronomy 2:10 · BSB

(The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.

Deuteronomy 2:11 · BSB

Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.

“but the LORD”

Deuteronomy 2:22 Judges 11:24 Jeremiah 27:7 Jeremiah 27:8 Habakkuk 1:10 Habakkuk 1:11

Deuteronomy 2:22 · BSB

just as He had done for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day.

Judges 11:24 · BSB

Do you not possess whatever your god Chemosh grants you? So also, we possess whatever the LORD our God has granted us.

Jeremiah 27:7 · BSB

All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

Jeremiah 27:8 · BSB

As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destro…

Habakkuk 1:10 · BSB

They scoff at kings and make rulers an object of scorn. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to seize it.

Habakkuk 1:11 · BSB

Then they sweep by like the wind and pass through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

20(That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.

22just as He had done for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day.

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