Verse of the Day
Author Spotlight
Loading featured author...
Report Issue
See a formatting issue or error?
Let us know →
They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
Verse Takeaways
1
The Giants of Hebron
The spies encountered Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai in Hebron. Commentators identify these 'children of Anak' as giants who made the city a formidable, well-defended stronghold. This detail is key to understanding the fear that later gripped ten of the spies and the entire nation.
See 3 Verse Takeaways
Book Overview
Numbers
Author
Audience
Composition
Teaching Highlights
Outline
+ 5 more
See Overview
5
18th Century
Presbyterian
The ancestor of the Anakim was Arba "the father of Anak" (Joshua 15:13), from whom the city of Hebron took its name of Kirjath-Arba. Ah…
19th Century
Anglican
And they ascended by the south, and came. — The latter verb is in the singular number in the Hebrew text: he came.
16th Century
Protestant
And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron. Their direct course was not, indeed, towards the south, but they proceeded …
Go ad-free and create your own bookmark library
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And they ascended by the south When they returned, after they had searched the land, then they came into the south c…
The searchers of the land brought a bunch of grapes with them, and other fruits, as proofs of the goodness of the country, which was to Israel both…
