Joshua 14:12-14

14:12 Now, assign me this hill country which the Lord promised me at that time! No doubt you heard at that time that the Anakites live there in large, fortified cities. ¹  But, assuming the Lord is with me, I will conquer ²  them, as the Lord promised.” 14:13 Joshua asked God to empower Caleb son of Jephunneh and assigned him Hebron. ³  14:14 So Hebron remains the assigned land of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this very day ⁴  because he remained loyal to the Lord God of Israel.

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.) ⁵  15:14 Caleb drove out ⁶  from there three Anakites – Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, descendants of Anak.

Numbers 13:22-23

13:22 When they went up through the Negev, they ⁷  came ⁸  to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, ⁹  descendants of Anak, were living. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan ¹⁰  in Egypt.) 13:23 When they came to the valley of Eshcol, they cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a staff ¹¹  between two men, as well as some of the pomegranates and the figs.

Deuteronomy 1:28

1:28 What is going to happen to us? Our brothers have drained away our courage ¹²  by describing people who are more numerous ¹³  and taller than we are, and great cities whose defenses appear to be as high as heaven ¹⁴  itself! Moreover, they said they saw ¹⁵  Anakites ¹⁶  there.”

Deuteronomy 2:21

2:21 They are a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites. But the Lord destroyed the Rephaites ¹⁷  in advance of the Ammonites, ¹⁸  so they dispossessed them and settled down in their place.

Deuteronomy 9:2

9:2 They include the Anakites, ¹⁹  a numerous ²⁰  and tall people whom you know about and of whom it is said, “Who is able to resist the Anakites?”

Jude 1:10-11

1:10 But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend. ²¹  1:11 Woe to them! For they have traveled down Cain’s path, ²²  and because of greed ²³  have abandoned themselves ²⁴  to ²⁵  Balaam’s error; hence, ²⁶  they will certainly perish ²⁷  in Korah’s rebellion.

Jude 1:20

1:20 But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith, by praying in the Holy Spirit, ²⁸ 

Jeremiah 3:23

3:23 We know our noisy worship of false gods

on the hills and mountains did not help us. ²⁹ 

We know that the Lord our God

is the only one who can deliver Israel. ³⁰ 

Jeremiah 9:23

9:23 ³¹ The Lord says,

“Wise people should not boast that they are wise.

Powerful people should not boast that they are powerful. ³² 

Rich people should not boast that they are rich. ³³ 

Amos 2:9

2:9 For Israel’s sake I destroyed the Amorites. ³⁴ 

They were as tall as cedars ³⁵ 

and as strong as oaks,

but I destroyed the fruit on their branches ³⁶ 

and their roots in the ground. ³⁷ 

[14:12]  ¹ tn Heb “are there and large, fortified cities.”

[14:12]  ² tn Or “will dispossess.”

[14:13]  ³ tn Heb “Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.”

[14:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh for an inheritance to this day.”

[15:13]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tn Or “dispossessed.”

[13:22]  ⁷ tc The MT has the singular, but the ancient versions and Smr have the plural.

[13:22]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ 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]  ¹⁰ 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).

[13:23]  ¹¹ tn The word is related etymologically to the verb for “slip, slide, bend, totter.” This would fit the use very well. A pole that would not bend would be hard to use to carry things, but a pole or stave that was flexible would serve well.

[1:28]  ¹² tn Heb “have caused our hearts to melt.”

[1:28]  ¹³ tn Heb “greater.” Many English versions understand this to refer to physical size or strength rather than numbers (cf. “stronger,” NAB, NIV, NRSV; “bigger,” NASB).

[1:28]  ¹⁴ tn Or “as the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[1:28]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “we have seen.”

[1:28]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the sons of the Anakim.”

[2:21]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “them”; the referent (the Rephaites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:21]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “them”; the referent (the Ammonites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:2]  ¹⁹ sn Anakites. See note on this term in Deut 1:28.

[9:2]  ²⁰ tn Heb “great and tall.” Many English versions understand this to refer to physical size or strength rather than numbers (cf. “strong,” NIV, NCV, NRSV, NLT).

[1:10]  ²¹ tn Or “they should naturally comprehend.” The present tense in this context may have a conative force.

[1:11]  ²² tn Or “they have gone the way of Cain.”

[1:11]  ²³ tn Grk “for wages.”

[1:11]  ²⁴ tn The verb ἐκχέω (ekcew) normally means “pour out.” Here, in the passive, it occasionally has a reflexive idea, as BDAG 312 s.v. 3. suggests (with extra-biblical examples).

[1:11]  ²⁵ tn Or “in.”

[1:11]  ²⁶ tn Grk “and.” See note on “perish” later in this verse.

[1:11]  ²⁷ tn The three verbs in this verse are all aorist indicative (“have gone down,” “have abandoned,” “have perished”). Although the first and second could be considered constative or ingressive, the last is almost surely proleptic (referring to the certainty of their future judgment). Although it may seem odd that a proleptic aorist is so casually connected to other aorists with a different syntactical force, it is not unparalleled (cf. Rom 8:30).

[1:20]  ²⁸ tn The participles in v. 20 have been variously interpreted. Some treat them imperativally or as attendant circumstance to the imperative in v. 21 (“maintain”): “build yourselves up…pray.” But they do not follow the normal contours of either the imperatival or attendant circumstance participles, rendering this unlikely. A better option is to treat them as the means by which the readers are to maintain themselves in the love of God. This both makes eminently good sense and fits the structural patterns of instrumental participles elsewhere.

[3:23]  ²⁹ tn Heb “Truly in vain from the hills the noise/commotion [and from] the mountains.” The syntax of the Hebrew sentence is very elliptical here.

[3:23]  ³⁰ tn Heb “Truly in the Lord our God is deliverance for Israel.”

[9:23]  ³¹ 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]  ³² tn Or “Strong people should not brag that they are strong.”

[9:23]  ³³ tn Heb “…in their wisdom…in their power…in their riches.”

[2:9]  ³⁴ tn Heb “I destroyed the Amorites from before them.” The translation takes מִפְּנֵי (mippÿney) in the sense of “for the sake of.” See BDB 818 s.v. פָּנֻה II.6.a and H. W. Wolff, Joel and Amos (Hermeneia), 134. Another option is to take the phrase in a spatial sense, “I destroyed the Amorites, [clearing them out] from before them [i.e., Israel]” (cf. NIV, NRSV).

[2:9]  ³⁵ tn Heb “whose height was like the height of cedars.”

[2:9]  ³⁶ tn Heb “his fruit from above.”

[2:9]  ³⁷ tn Heb “and his roots from below.”