Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
But the people living in the land are strong, and the towns are walled and very great; further, we saw the children of Anak there.
New American Standard Bible
Nevertheless,
King James Version
Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
Holman Bible
However, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified.
International Standard Version
except that the people who have settled in the land are strong, and their cities are greatly fortified. We also saw the descendants of Anak.
A Conservative Version
However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, very great, and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
American Standard Version
Howbeit the people that dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
Amplified
But the people who live in the land are strong, and the cities are
Darby Translation
Only, the people are strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, very great; moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
Julia Smith Translation
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.
King James 2000
Nevertheless the people are strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
Lexham Expanded Bible
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.
Modern King James verseion
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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Nevertheless, the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled and exceeding great, and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
NET Bible
But the inhabitants are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.
New Heart English Bible
However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.
The Emphasized Bible
Nevertheless surely mighty, are the people that dwell in the land, - and, the cities, walled in, exceeding great, moreover also, the descendants of the
Webster
Nevertheless, the people are strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.
World English Bible
However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, [and] very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
Youngs Literal Translation
only, surely the people which is dwelling in the land is strong; and the cities are fenced, very great; and also children of Anak we have seen there.
Themes
Caleb » Brings favorable report
Canaan » Land of » Spies sent into, by moses
the Canaanites » Had many strong cities
the Canaanites » Described as » Great and mighty
Cities » General references to
Cowardice » Instances of » The ten spies
Majority and minority reports » Of the spies
Reports » Majority and minority » Of spies
Trouble » Instances of » When the spies brought their adverse report
Interlinear
'ephec
Yashab
Batsar
M@`od
Gadowl
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 13:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
Report About Canaan
27 And they said, We came to the land where you sent us, and truly it is flowing with milk and honey: and here is some of the produce of it. 28 But the people living in the land are strong, and the towns are walled and very great; further, we saw the children of Anak there. 29 And the Amalekites are in the South; and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill-country; and the Canaanites by the sea and by the side of Jordan.
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:28
Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts feeble with fear by saying, The people are greater and taller than we are, and the towns are great and walled up to heaven; and more than this, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
Deuteronomy 9:1-2
Give ear, O Israel: today you are to go over Jordan, to take the heritage of nations greater and stronger than yourselves, and towns of great size with walls as high as heaven;
Numbers 13:33
There we saw those great men, the sons of Anak, offspring of the Nephilim: and we seemed to ourselves no more than insects, and so we seemed to them.
Numbers 13:22-23
They went up into the South and came to Hebron; and Ahiman and Sheshai and Talmai, the children of Anak, were living there. (Now the building of Hebron took place seven years before that of Zoan in Egypt.)
Deuteronomy 2:10-11
(In the past the Emim were living there; a great people, equal in numbers to the Anakim and as tall;
Deuteronomy 2:21
They were a great people, tall as the Anakim, and equal to them in number; but the Lord sent destruction on them and the children of Ammon took their place, living in their land;
Deuteronomy 3:5
All these towns had high walls round them with doors and locks; and in addition we took a great number of unwalled towns.
Joshua 11:22
Not one of the Anakim was to be seen in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, some were still living.
Joshua 15:14
And the three sons of Anak, Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the children of Anak, were forced out from there by Caleb.
Judges 1:20
And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said; and he took the land of the three sons of Anak, driving them out from there.