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
We have seen
General references
Bible References
Discouraged
Deuteronomy 20:8
And the officials shall continue to speak to the troops, and they shall say, '{What man} is afraid {and disheartened}? Let him go, and let him return to his house, and let him not cause the heart of his brothers to melt like his.'
Joshua 2:9
and said to the men, "I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that dread of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away [in fear] because of your presence.
Isaiah 13:7
Therefore all hands will grow slack, and every human heart will melt,
Ezekiel 21:7
{And then} when they say to you, 'On account of what [are] you groaning?' then you must say, 'On account of [the] report, for it [is] coming, and every heart will be weak and all hands will hang limp and every spirit will be disheartened, and all knees will go [like] water.' Look! It [is] coming, and it will happen!" {declares} the Lord Yahweh.
The people
Deuteronomy 9:1
"Hear, Israel, you [are] about to cross the Jordan today to go to dispossess nations larger and more numerous than you, great cities fortified {with high walls},
Numbers 13:28
Yet the people who are inhabiting [it are] strong and the cities [are] fortified and very large; moreover, we saw the descendants of the Anakites there.
We have seen
Deuteronomy 9:2
a great and tall people, the sons of [the] Anakites, whom you know and [of whom you] have heard [it said], 'Who could stand before the sons of Anak?'
Joshua 11:22
None of the Anakites were left in the land of the {Israelites}; some remained only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.
Joshua 15:14
Caleb drove out from there three of Anak's sons, Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak.
Judges 1:10
And Judah went against the Canaanites living in Hebron (the former name of Hebron [was] Kiriath Arba). And they defeated Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.
2 Samuel 21:16
Now Yishbi in Nob, who [was] among the descendents of Raphah (now the weight of his spearhead [was] three hundredweight of bronze, and he [was] newly armed), said that he would kill David.
General references
Numbers 13:31
And the men who went up with him said, "We are not able to go up to the people because they [are] stronger than us."
Numbers 32:9
When they went up to the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the {Israelites} so that they did not come to the land that Yahweh gave to them.
Deuteronomy 3:5
All of these [were] fortified towns with high walls, gates, and bars, {apart from} very many [of] the villages of the open country.