²⁸ Where can we go up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, by saying, “The people are bigger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we saw ^(A)the sons of the Anakim there.”’

Israel Provoked God

9 “Hear, Israel! You are crossing the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess ^(A)nations greater and mightier than you, cities that are great and ^(B)fortified to heaven,

² a people who are great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, ‘^(A)Who can stand against the sons of Anak?’