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And they went up into the Negev (south) and came to Hebron (Hebr. Chevrón) and Achiman, Sheshaj, and Talmai, the children of Anak [giants], were there. And Hebron was built seven years before Zoan [probably Tanis] in Egypt.
However, the people who live in the land are violent, and the cities are fortified and very large, and we also saw the children of Anak there.
And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak from the Nephilim, and in our own eyes we were like grasshoppers, and so we were in their eyes." []
[Based on the fruit they brought with them, see , it must be the end of summer. According to Jewish tradition, this occurs on Tisha BeAv, the 9th day of the month of (falls in July/August). It is the same date on which the first and second temples were destroyed. Even today, it is a day of mourning for the Jewish people.]
What will happen to us when we go up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, 'The people are bigger and taller than we are, the cities are large and fortified up to the heavens, and besides, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there. '" []
The Emim ["terrifying people"] lived there before, a great people, numerous and tall like the Anakim,
who are also counted among the Rephaim, like the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim. [The name of the Emim people is the plural form of the word for terror (Hebr. ). They were a feared people, see also .]
a great people, many and tall like the Anakim, but the Lord (Yahweh) destroyed them before them, and they defeated them and lived there in their place,
a great and lofty people, the sons of Anak, whom you know and of whom you have heard (it said), "Who can stand before the sons of Anak (the Anakim)?"
And Joshua came at that time and exterminated (cut off) the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Devir, from Anav, and from the entire hill country of Judah and from the entire hill country of Israel. Joshua completely destroyed them with their cities.
No
Anakite was left in the land of the children of Israel, only in
Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod were there any left.
Now therefore give me these mountains which the Lord (Yahweh) spoke of that day, for you heard that day how the Anakim were there, and the cities were large and fortified. It will be so that the Lord (Yahweh) is with me and will drive them out as the Lord (Yahweh) spoke."
Hebron was formerly called Kiriath-Arba, which was the Arba who was the greatest man among the Anakim. And the land had rest (silence, peace) from war.
[Arba is Hebrew for the number four, so Kiriath-Arba is "the city of four" or "Tetrapolis." There are various rabbinical explanations for the name: four patriarchs are buried there (Adam, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob); four matriarchs are buried there (Eve, Sarah, Rebekah, and Leah); the city was the place from which Abraham set out when he fought four kings.]
And to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, he gave a portion among the sons of Judah according to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, Kiriath-Arba, the Arba whose father was Anak, that is, Hebron.
And Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak, Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the sons of Anak.
And they gave them Kiriath-Arba, which is Arba the father of Anak, the same as Hebron (Hebr. Chevrón), in the hill country of Judah, with the open land around it.
And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, and they drove out from there the three sons of Anak [; ; ].
