²⁸ Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt in fear. They say, ‘The people are stronger and taller^(A) than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the sky. We even saw the Anakites^(B) there.’”

¹⁰ (The Emites^(A) used to live there—a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites.^{(B) 11} Like the Anakites, they too were considered Rephaites,^(C) but the Moabites called them Emites.

²¹ They were a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites.^(A) The Lord destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place.

² The people are strong and tall—Anakites! You know about them and have heard it said: “Who can stand up against the Anakites?”^(A)

²¹ At that time Joshua went and destroyed the Anakites^(A) from the hill country: from Hebron, Debir^(B) and Anab,^(C) from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua totally destroyed them and their towns. ²² No Anakites were left in Israelite territory; only in Gaza,^(D) Gath^(E) and Ashdod^(F) did any survive.