Numbers 13:28 New King James Version (NKJV)

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

Numbers 13:31-33 New King James Version (NKJV)

³¹ 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 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 all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. ³³ There we saw the ^[a]giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like^[b] grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”

Deuteronomy 9:1 New King James Version (NKJV)

Israel’s Rebellions Reviewed

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,

Deuteronomy 9:2 New King James Version (NKJV)

² a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’