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.”’

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?’

²¹ Then Joshua came at that time and eliminated ^(A)the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, Debir, Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah and all the hill country of Israel. Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.