Joshua 14:15

14:15 (Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba. Arba was a famous Anakite. ¹ ) Then the land was free of war.

Genesis 23:2

23:2 Then she ²  died in Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. ³ 

Genesis 37:14

37:14 So Jacob ⁴  said to him, “Go now and check on ⁵  the welfare ⁶  of your brothers and of the flocks, and bring me word.” So Jacob ⁷  sent him from the valley of Hebron.

Numbers 13:22

13:22 When they went up through the Negev, they ⁸  came ⁹  to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, ¹⁰  descendants of Anak, were living. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan ¹¹  in Egypt.)

Numbers 13:2

13:2 “Send out men to investigate ¹²  the land of Canaan, which I am giving ¹³  to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe, ¹⁴  each one a leader among them.”

Numbers 2:11

2:11 Those numbered in his division are 46,500.

¹ tn Heb “And he was the great man among the Anakites.”

² tn Heb “Sarah.” The proper name has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“she”) for stylistic reasons.

³ sn Mourn…weep. The description here is of standard mourning rites (see K. A. Kitchen, NBD³ 149-50). They would have been carried out in the presence of the corpse, probably in Sarah’s tent. So Abraham came in to mourn; then he rose up to go and bury his dead (v. 3).

⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “see.”

⁶ tn Heb “peace.”

⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tc The MT has the singular, but the ancient versions and Smr have the plural.

⁹ tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive is here subordinated to the following clause. The first verse gave the account of their journey over the whole land; this section focuses on what happened in the area of Hebron, which would be the basis for the false report.

¹⁰ sn These names are thought to be three clans that were in the Hebron area (see Josh 15:14; Judg 1:20). To call them descendants of Anak is usually taken to mean that they were large or tall people (2 Sam 21:18-22). They were ultimately driven out by Caleb.

¹¹ sn The text now provides a brief historical aside for the readers. Zoan was probably the city of Tanis, although that is disputed today by some scholars. It was known in Egypt in the New Kingdom as “the fields of Tanis,” which corresponded to the “fields of Zoar” in the Hebrew Bible (Ps 78:12, 43).

¹² tn The imperfect tense with the conjunction is here subordinated to the preceding imperative to form the purpose clause. It can thus be translated “send…to investigate.”

¹³ tn The participle here should be given a future interpretation, meaning “which I am about to give” or “which I am going to give.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “one man one man of the tribe of his fathers.”