The king of Arad, the Canaanite king who lived in the south of the land of Canaan, heard about the approach of the Israelites.

When Moses sent them to investigate the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev, and then go up into the hill country

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