²⁸ Where can we go? Our brothers have made us lose heart,^[a](A) saying: The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, fortified to the heavens.^(B) We also saw the descendants of the Anakim^(C) there.’

¹⁰ The Emim, a great and numerous people as tall as the Anakim,^(A) had previously lived there. ¹¹ They were also regarded as Rephaim,^(B) like the Anakim, though the Moabites called them Emim.^(C)

²¹ a great and numerous people, tall as the Anakim. The Lord destroyed the Rephaim at the advance of the Ammonites, so that they drove them out and settled in their place.

² The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim.^(A) You know about them and you have heard it said about them, ‘Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?’ ^(B)

²¹ At that time Joshua proceeded to exterminate the Anakim^(A) from the hill country—Hebron, Debir, Anab—all the hill country of Judah and of Israel. Joshua completely destroyed them with their cities. ²² No Anakim were left in the land of the Israelites, except for some remaining in Gaza, Gath,^(B) and Ashdod.