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 officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, Who is the man that is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brothers' heart faint as well as his heart.

And she said to the men, I know that Jehovah has given you the land, and that your terror has fallen on us, and that all those who live in the land faint because of you.

Therefore all hands shall be faint, and every man's heart shall melt;

And it will be when they say to you, Why do you groan? You shall answer, Because of the news that it is coming; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be, says the Lord Jehovah.

The people

Hear, O, Israel! You are to pass over Jordan today, to go in to expel nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fenced up to heaven,

However, the people that dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are walled, very great. And also we saw the children of Anak there.

We have seen

a people great and tall, the sons of the giants, whom you know and have heard it said, Who can stand before the sons of Anak!

There were none of the giants left in the land of the sons of Israel; only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod there remained some.

And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the sons of Anak.

And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (and the name of Hebron before was Kirjath-arba). And they killed Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.

And Ishbi-benob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of bronze in weight. And he being girded with a new sword thought to kill David.

General references

But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.

For when they went up into the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they broke the hearts of the sons of Israel, so that they should not go into the land which Jehovah had given them.

All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides a good many unwalled towns.