Numbers 13:28 “Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities…”

Numbers 13:28

Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

World English Bible

However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.

American Standard Version

Howbeit the people that dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

Geneva Bible 1599

And they tolde him, and saide, We came vnto the land whither thou hast sent vs, and surely it floweth with milke and honie: and here is of the fruite of it.

Darby Translation

Only, the people are strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, very great; moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

Young's Literal Translation

only, surely the people which is dwelling in the land [is] strong; and the cities are fenced, very great; and also children of Anak we have seen there.

Bible in Basic English

But the people living in the land are strong, and the towns are walled and very great; further, we saw the children of Anak there.

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Cross references

“strong”

Deuteronomy 1:28 Deuteronomy 2:21 Deuteronomy 3:5 Deuteronomy 2:10 Deuteronomy 2:11 Deuteronomy 9:1

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 2:21 · BSB

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,

Deuteronomy 3:5 · BSB

All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages.

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.

Deuteronomy 9:1 · BSB

Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.

“saw the”

Numbers 13:33 Joshua 11:22 Joshua 15:14 Judges 1:20 Numbers 13:22 Numbers 13:23

Numbers 13:33 · BSB

We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”

Joshua 11:22 · BSB

No Anakim were left in the land of the Israelites; only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod did any survive.

Joshua 15:14 · BSB

And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak—the descendants of Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

Judges 1:20 · BSB

Just as Moses had promised, Judah gave Hebron to Caleb, who drove out the descendants of the three sons of Anak.

Numbers 13:22 · BSB

They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

Numbers 13:23 · BSB

When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which they carried on a pole between two men. They also took some pomegranates and figs.

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

In context

27And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!

29The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”

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