Deuteronomy 9:2 BSB

Deuteronomy 9:2

The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them, and you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?”

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ASV

a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the sons of Anak?

KJV

A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!

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Commentary

1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This representation is much the same with that which the evil spies had made ( Num. xiii. 28, 33 ), but made with a very different intention: that was designed to drive them from God and to discourage their hope in him; this to drive them to God and to engage their hope in him, since no power less than that which is almighty could secure and prosper them.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עַֽם־	'am-	a people	H5971 →
גָּד֥וֹל	ga.Dol	great	H1419 →
וָרָ֖ם	va.Ram	and lofty	H7311 →
בְּנֵ֣י	be.Nei	[the] descendants of	H1121 →
עֲנָקִ֑ים	'a.na.Kim	[the] Anakites	H6062 →
אֲשֶׁ֨ר	'a.Sher	whom	H834 →
אַתָּ֤ה	'a.Tah	you	H859 →
יָדַ֙עְתָּ֙	ya.Da'.ta	you know	H3045 →
וְאַתָּ֣ה	ve.'a.Tah	and you	H859 →
שָׁמַ֔עְתָּ	sha.Ma'.ta	you have heard	H8085 →
מִ֣י	mi	who?	H4310 →
יִתְיַצֵּ֔ב	yit.ya.Tzev	will he stand	H3320 →
לִפְנֵ֖י	lif.Nei	<to> before	H6440 →
בְּנֵ֥י	be.Nei	[the] descendants of	H1121 →
עֲנָֽק׃	'a.Nak	Anak	H6061 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Numbers 13:33
We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”
leads to
- Deuteronomy 1:28
  Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 6:4
  The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of…
- Isaiah 40:22
  He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
Through
Nahum 1:6
Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
leads to
- Jeremiah 10:10
  But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
- Malachi 3:2
  But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.
Through
Deuteronomy 7:24
He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.
leads to
- Joshua 10:8
  The LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for I have delivered them into your hand. Not one of them shall stand against you.”
- Joshua 23:9
  The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you.
Through
Numbers 13:28
Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 9:1–2
  Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.

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