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.

^31 (A)But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” ³² And they ^(B)gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and ^(C)all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. ³³ There we saw the ^[a]giants (^(D)the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were ^(E)like^[b] grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were ^(F)in their sight.”

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 ^(A)descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’