◄ Numbers 13:22 {23} ►
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Good News Translation
They went first into the southern part of the land and came to Hebron, where the clans of Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of a race of giants called the Anakim, lived. (Hebron was founded seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

New Revised Standard Version
They went up into the Negeb, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the Anakites, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Contemporary English Version
As they went through the Southern Desert, they came to the town of Hebron, which was seven years older than the Egyptian town of Zoan. In Hebron, they saw the three Anakim clans of Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai.

New American Bible
Going up by way of the Negeb, they reached Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, descendants of the Anakim, were. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they went up at the south side, and came to Hebron, where were Achiman and Sisai and Tholmai the sons of Enac. For Hebron was built seven years before Tanis the city of Egypt.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they went up at the south side, and came to Hebron, where were Achiman and Sisai and Tholmai the sons of Enac. For Hebron was built seven years before Tanis the city of Egypt.

Ahiman

Joshua 11:21,22 At that time Joshua came and cut off the Enancims from the mountains, from Hebron, and Dabir, and Anab, and from all the mountain of Juda and Israel, and destroyed their cities. . . .

Joshua 15:13,14 But to Caleb the son of Jephone he gave a portion in the midst of the children of Juda, as the Lord had commanded him: Cariath-Arbe the father of Enac, which is Hebron. . . .

Judges 1:10 And Juda going forward against the Chanaanite, that dwelt in Hebron, (the name whereof was in former times Cariath-Arbe) slew Sesai, and Ahiman, and Tholmai:

the children

Numbers 13:33 There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.

Hebron

Genesis 13:18 So Abram removing his tent, came, and dwelt by the vale of Mambre, which is in Hebron: and he built there an altar to the Lord.

Genesis 23:2 And she died in the city of Arbee which is Hebron, in the land of Chanaan: and Abraham came to mourn and weep for her.

Joshua 14:13-15 And Joshua blessed him, and gave him Hebron in possession. . . .

Joshua 21:13 He gave therefore to the children of Aaron the priest, Hebron a city of refuge, and the suburbs thereof, and Lebna with the suburbs thereof,

2 Samuel 2:1,11 And after these things David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I go up into one of the cities of Juda? And the Lord said to him: Go up. And David said: Whither shall I go up? And he answered him: Into Hebron. . . .

Zoan

Psalm 78:12,43 Wonderful things did he do in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis. . . .

Isaiah 19:11 The princes of Tanis are become fools, the wise counsellors of Pharao have given foolish counsel: how will you say to Pharao: I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

Isaiah 30:4 For thy princes were in Tanis, and thy messengers came even to Hanes.

Context
The Spies Explore Canaan
…21And when they were gone up, they viewed the land from the desert of Sin, unto Rohob as you enter into Emath. 22And they went up at the south side, and came to Hebron, where were Achiman and Sisai and Tholmai the sons of Enac. For Hebron was built seven years before Tanis the city of Egypt.23And forward as far as the torrent of the cluster of grapes, they cut off a branch with its cluster of grapes, which two men carried upon a lever. They took also of the pomegranates and of the figs of that place:…
Cross References
Numbers 13:17
And Moses sent them to view the land of Chanaan, and said to them: Go you up by the south side. And when you shall come to the mountains,

Numbers 13:28
But it hath very strong inhabitants, and the cities are great and walled. We saw there the race of Enac.

Numbers 13:33
There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.

Deuteronomy 9:2
A people great and tall, the sons of the Enacims, whom thou hast seen, and heard of, against whom no man is able to stand.

Joshua 10:36
He went up also with all Israel from Eglon to Hebron, and fought against it:

Joshua 15:14
And Caleb destroyed out of it the three sons of Enac, Sesai and Ahiman, and Tholmai of the race of Enac.

1 Samuel 30:31
And that were in Hebron, and to the rest that were in those places, in which David had abode with his men.

2 Samuel 21:16
Jesbibenob, who was of the race of Arapha, the iron of whose spear weighed three hundred ounces, being girded with a new sword, attempted to kill David.

Psalm 78:12
Wonderful things did he do in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis.

Psalm 78:43
How he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanis.

Isaiah 19:11
The princes of Tanis are become fools, the wise counsellors of Pharao have given foolish counsel: how will you say to Pharao: I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

Numbers 13:21
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