Deuteronomy 1:28

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.

Discouraged

The people

Deuteronomy 9:1

Numbers 13:28

We have seen

2 Samuel 21:16

General references

Numbers 13:31

Numbers 32:9

Deuteronomy 3:5

Bible References

Discouraged

And the scribes shall add to speak to the people, and they said, What man was afraid and cast down of heart? he shall go and turn back to his house, and he shall not melt his brother's heart as his heart.

And she will say to the men, I knew that Jehovah gave to you the land, and that your terror fell upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melted from your face.

For this all hands shall be relaxed, and every heart of man shall melt.

And it was when they shall say to thee, For what sighest thou? and say, For the report, because it came: and every heart melted and all hands were relaxed, and every spirit was weak, and all knees shall go into water: behold, it came, and it was, says the Lord Jehovah.

The people

Hear, Israel: Thou passest this day over Jordan to go to possess nations great and strong above thee; cities great and fortified to the heavens:

Only that the people are strong dwelling upon the land, and the cities fortified, and very great: and also we saw the children of Anak there.

We have seen

A people great and high, sons of Anakims, whom thou knewest, and thou heardest, Who shall stand before the sons of Anak?

An Anakim was not left in the land of the sons of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, they were left

And Caleb drove from thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman and Talmai, children of Anak.

And Judah will go against the Canaanite dwelling in Hebron: (and the name of Hebron before, the city of Arba:) and they will smite Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.

And Ishbi-Benob who was from the children of Rephaim, and the weight of his spear three hundred weight of brass, and he being girded with a new one, and he will say to strike David.

General references

And the men who went with him said, We shall not be able to go up against the people, for they are strong above us.

And they will go up to the valley of Eshcol, and will see the land, and hinder the heart of the sons of Israel not to go to the land which Jehovah gave to them.

All these cities fortified with high walls, doors and bars; besides of cities of the open country exceedingly many.