Numbers 13:22
22They went up into athe Negeb and came to bHebron. cAhiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the ddescendants of Anak, were there. ( eHebron was built seven years before fZoan in Egypt.)Deuteronomy 1:28
28Where are we going up? gOur brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, h“The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen ithe sons of the Anakim there.”’Deuteronomy 2:10
10( jThe Emim formerly lived there, ka people great and many, and tall las the Anakim.Deuteronomy 3:11
11(For monly Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of nthe Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in oRabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits ▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the qcommon cubit. ▼▼Hebrew cubit of a man
) Deuteronomy 9:2
2a people great and tall, sthe sons of the Anakim, twhom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the sons of Anak?’1 Samuel 17:4-7
4And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named uGoliath of vGath, whose height was six ▼▼Hebrew; Septuagint, Dead Sea Scroll and Josephus four
cubits ▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
and a span. 5He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels ▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
of bronze. 6And he had bronze armor on his legs, and a zjavelin of bronze slung between his shoulders. 7The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. aaAnd his shield-bearer went before him. 2 Samuel 21:20-22
20And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was descended abfrom the giants. 21And when ache taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, struck him down. 22These four were descended adfrom the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.1 Chronicles 11:23
23And he struck down an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits ▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
tall. The Egyptian had in his hand a spear aflike a weaver’s beam, but Benaiah went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.
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