Judges 1:20

1:20 Caleb received ¹  Hebron, just as Moses had promised. He drove out the three Anakites.

Numbers 13:22

13:22 When they went up through the Negev, they ²  came ³  to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, ⁴  descendants of Anak, were living. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan ⁵  in Egypt.)

Numbers 13:33

13:33 We even saw the Nephilim ⁶  there (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed liked grasshoppers both to ourselves ⁷  and to them.” ⁸ 

Joshua 15:13-14

15:13 Caleb son of Jephunneh was assigned Kiriath Arba (that is Hebron) within the tribe of Judah, according to the Lord’s instructions to Joshua. (Arba was the father of Anak.) ⁹  15:14 Caleb drove out ¹⁰  from there three Anakites – Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, descendants of Anak.

Psalms 33:16-17

33:16 No king is delivered by his vast army;

a warrior is not saved by his great might.

33:17 A horse disappoints those who trust in it for victory; ¹¹ 

despite its great strength, it cannot deliver.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

Wisdom Cannot Protect against Seemingly Chance Events

9:11 Again, ¹²  I observed this on the earth: ¹³ 

the race is not always ¹⁴  won by the swiftest,

the battle is not always won by the strongest;

prosperity ¹⁵  does not always belong to those who are the wisest,

wealth does not always belong to those who are the most discerning,

nor does success ¹⁶  always come to those with the most knowledge –

for time and chance may overcome ¹⁷  them all.

Jeremiah 9:23

9:23 ¹⁸ The Lord says,

“Wise people should not boast that they are wise.

Powerful people should not boast that they are powerful. ¹⁹ 

Rich people should not boast that they are rich. ²⁰ 

[1:20]  ¹ tn Heb “they gave to Caleb.”

[13:22]  ² tc The MT has the singular, but the ancient versions and Smr have the plural.

[13:22]  ³ 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.

[13:22]  ⁴ 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.

[13:22]  ⁵ 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).

[13:33]  ⁶ tc The Greek version uses gigantes (“giants”) to translate “the Nephilim,” but it does not retain the clause “the sons of Anak are from the Nephilim.”

[13:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “in our eyes.”

[13:33]  ⁸ tn Heb “in their eyes.”

[15:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “To Caleb son of Jephunneh he gave a portion in the midst of the sons of Judah according to the mouth [i.e., command] of the Lord to Joshua, Kiriath Arba (the father of Anak), it is Hebron.”

[15:14]  ¹⁰ tn Or “dispossessed.”

[33:17]  ¹¹ tn Heb “a lie [is] the horse for victory.”

[9:11]  ¹² tn Heb “I returned and.” In the Hebrew idiom, “to return and do” means “to do again.”

[9:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “under the sun.”

[9:11]  ¹⁴ tn The term “always” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation (five times in this verse) for clarity.

[9:11]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “bread.”

[9:11]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “favor.”

[9:11]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “happen to.”

[9:23]  ¹⁸ sn It is not always clear why verses were placed in their present position in the editorial process of collecting Jeremiah’s sermons and the words the Lord spoke to him (see Jer 36:4, 32 for reference to two of these collections). Here it is probable that vv. 23-26 were added as a further answer to the question raised in v. 12.

[9:23]  ¹⁹ tn Or “Strong people should not brag that they are strong.”

[9:23]  ²⁰ tn Heb “…in their wisdom…in their power…in their riches.”