When Abram heard that his nephew<n id="1" /> had been taken captive, he mobilized<n id="2" /> his 318 trained men who had been born in his household, and he pursued the invaders<n id="3" /> as far as Dan.<n id="4" />

When they went up through the Negev, they<n id="1" /> came<n id="2" /> to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai,<n id="3" /> descendants of Anak, were living. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan<n id="4" /> in Egypt.)

Caleb drove out<n id="1" /> from there three Anakites &#8211; Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, descendants of Anak.

<p class="bodytext">Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money)<n id="1" /> and circumcised them<n id="2" /> on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.