Deuteronomy 2:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

a people great and many and tall, as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them before them, and they succeeded them and dwelt in their place.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    They were a great and numerous people, as tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD stroyed them before them; and they succeed them, and dwelt in their stead:

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    a people{H5971} great,{H1419} and many,{H7227} and tall,{H7311} as the Anakim;{H6062} but Jehovah{H3068} destroyed{H8045} them before{H6440} them; and they succeeded{H3423} them, and dwelt{H3427} in their stead;

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    A people{H5971} great{H1419}, and many{H7227}, and tall{H7311}{(H8802)}, as the Anakims{H6062}; but the LORD{H3068} destroyed{H8045}{(H8686)} them before{H6440} them; and they succeeded{H3423}{(H8799)} them, and dwelt{H3427}{(H8799)} in their stead:

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    A people that was great, many and taule, as the Enakyms. But the Lorde destroyed them before the Ammonites, and they cast them out and they dwelt there i their steade:

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    which was a people that was greate, many, and of hye stature, as the Enakims.And these ye LORDE destroyed before the, and let them possesse the same, so that they dwelt in their steade.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    A people that was great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims: but the Lord destroyed them before them, and they succeeded them in their inheritance, and dwelt in their stead:

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    A people that was great, many, and tall, as the Anakims: But the Lorde destroyed them before them, and they succeeded them in their inheritaunce, and dwelt in their steade:

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place;

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    a people great, and numerous, and tall, as the Anakim, and Jehovah destroyeth them before them, and they dispossess them, and dwell in their stead,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Jehovah destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Jehovah destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead;

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    They were a great people, tall as the Anakim, and equal to them in number; but the Lord sent destruction on them and the children of Ammon took their place, living in their land;

  • World English Bible (2000)

    a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place;

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    They are a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed the Rephaites in advance of the Ammonites, so they dispossessed them and settled down in their place.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 1:28 : 28 Where shall we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
  • Deut 2:10-11 : 10 The Emim dwelt there in times past, a people great and many and tall as the Anakim; 11 Who were also regarded as giants, like the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
  • Deut 2:22 : 22 As He did to the children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them and dwelt in their place even unto this day.
  • Deut 3:11 : 11 For only Og, king of Bashan, remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its width, according to the cubit of a man.
  • Judg 11:24 : 24 Will you not possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever the LORD our God drives out from before us, them will we possess.
  • Jer 27:7-8 : 7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his grandson, until the very time of his land comes: and then many nations and great kings shall enslave him. 8 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish, says the LORD, with the sword, and with famine, and with pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
  • Hab 1:10-11 : 10 They scoff at kings, and the princes are scorned by them; they deride every stronghold, for they heap up dust and take it. 11 Then his mind changes, and he transgresses; he commits offense, ascribing this power to his god.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 9:2-3
    2 verses
    82%

    2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!

    3 Understand therefore today, that the LORD your God is the one who goes over before you; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before you: so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said to you.

  • Deut 2:10-12
    3 verses
    82%

    10 The Emim dwelt there in times past, a people great and many and tall as the Anakim;

    11 Who were also regarded as giants, like the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.

    12 The Horites also dwelt in Seir previously; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their place, as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them.

  • Deut 2:22-23
    2 verses
    81%

    22 As He did to the children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them and dwelt in their place even unto this day.

    23 And the Avvites who dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorites, who came out of Caphtor, destroyed them and dwelt in their place.)

  • Deut 2:20
    81%

    20 (That also was regarded as a land of giants: giants dwelt there in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

  • Josh 11:21-22
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    78%

    21 And at that time Joshua came, and cut off the Anakim from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.

    22 There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, some remained.

  • Num 13:28-29
    2 verses
    75%

    28 Nevertheless, the people are strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there.

    29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south; and the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.

  • Amos 2:9
    73%

    9 Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.

  • Deut 31:4
    73%

    4 And the LORD shall do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to the land of them, whom he destroyed.

  • Judg 1:20
    72%

    20 And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses said, and he expelled from there the three sons of Anak.

  • Deut 1:28
    71%

    28 Where shall we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

  • Josh 13:12
    71%

    12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses strike, and cast them out.

  • Judg 11:23
    70%

    23 So now the LORD God of Israel has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess it?

  • Num 13:32-33
    2 verses
    70%

    32 And they gave a bad report of the land which they had explored to the children of Israel, saying, The land through which we have gone to explore it is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw in it are men of great stature.

    33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, descendants of the giants; and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.

  • Deut 7:1
    70%

    1 When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land where you are going to possess it, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you;

  • Neh 9:24
    70%

    24 So the children entered and possessed the land; You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them as they wished.

  • Deut 20:17
    70%

    17 But you shall utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you:

  • Num 21:35
    70%

    35 So they struck him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.

  • Judg 11:21
    70%

    21 And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.

  • Josh 15:14
    70%

    14 And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

  • Josh 12:4
    69%

    4 And the territory of Og king of Bashan, who was of the remnant of the giants, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

  • Deut 2:15-16
    2 verses
    69%

    15 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they were consumed.

    16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

  • Gen 15:21
    69%

    21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

  • Num 13:22
    69%

    22 And they ascended by the south and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

  • Deut 2:33
    69%

    33 And the LORD our God delivered him before us, and we struck him and his sons and all his people.

  • Deut 7:23
    69%

    23 But the LORD your God shall deliver them to you, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they are destroyed.

  • Ps 135:11
    69%

    11 Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan:

  • Num 21:31
    69%

    31 Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.

  • Deut 19:1
    69%

    1 When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and houses;

  • Deut 12:29
    69%

    29 When the LORD your God cuts off the nations from before you, where you go to dispossess them, and you take their place and dwell in their land;

  • Josh 2:10
    69%

    10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt; and what you did unto the two kings of the Amorites, who were on the other side of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

  • 1 Chr 4:41
    69%

    41 And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, attacked their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and dwelt in their place because there was pasture there for their flocks.

  • Josh 24:8
    69%

    8 And I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that you might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.

  • Judg 3:5
    68%

    5 And the children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:

  • 1 Kgs 9:20
    68%

    20 All the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel,

  • Josh 21:11
    68%

    11 And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs around it.

  • 1 Chr 5:22
    68%

    22 For many fell down slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their place until the captivity.

  • Deut 11:23
    68%

    23 Then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall possess greater and mightier nations than yourselves.

  • Josh 23:9
    68%

    9 For the LORD has driven out from before you great and strong nations: but as for you, no one has been able to stand before you to this day.

  • Deut 3:3
    67%

    3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people, and we struck him down until none remained.

  • Judg 6:5
    67%

    5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as locusts in multitude; for both they and their camels were without number, and they entered into the land to destroy it.

  • Deut 3:6
    67%

    6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon, king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.