Deuteronomy 9:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

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!

Additional Resources

Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    The people are great and tall—the descendants of the Anakim, whom you know and about whom you have heard it said, 'Who can stand before the sons of Anak?'

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    a people{H5971} great{H1419} and tall,{H7311} the sons{H1121} of the Anakim,{H6062} whom thou knowest,{H3045} and of whom thou hast heard{H8085} say, Who can stand{H3320} before{H6440} the sons{H1121} of Anak?{H6061}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    A people{H5971} great{H1419} and tall{H7311}{(H8802)}, the children{H1121} of the Anakims{H6062}, whom thou knowest{H3045}{(H8804)}, and of whom thou hast heard{H8085}{(H8804)} say, Who can stand{H3320}{(H8691)} before{H6440} the children{H1121} of Anak{H6061}!

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    ad people greate and tall, euen the childern of the Enakims, which thou knowest and of whom thou hast herde saye who is able to stond before the childern of Enack?

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    a greate people and of an hye stature, namely the childre of Enakim, whom thou hast knowne, and of whom thou hast herde saye: Who is able to stonde agaynst the children of Enakim?

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    A people great and tall, euen the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak?

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    A people great & tall, euen the children of the Anakims, whiche thou knowest of, & of whom thou hast heard say, who wyll stand before the children of Anac?

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and [of whom] thou hast heard [say], Who can stand before the children of Anak!

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before the sons of Anak?

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    a people great and tall, sons of Anakim, whom thou -- thou hast known, (and thou -- thou hast heard: Who doth station himself before sons of Anak?)

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the sons of Anak?

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the sons of Anak?

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, of whom you have knowledge and of whom it has been said, All are forced to give way before the sons of Anak.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, "Who can stand before the sons of Anak?"

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    They include the Anakites, a numerous and tall people whom you know about and of whom it is said,“Who is able to resist the Anakites?”

Referenced Verses

  • Num 13:22 : 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.)
  • Num 13:28 : 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.
  • Num 13:33 : 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 2:11-12 : 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 2:21 : 21 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.
  • Deut 7:24 : 24 And he shall deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall destroy their name from under heaven: no man will be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.
  • Job 11:10 : 10 If He passes by, and imprisons, or gathers together, then who can stop Him?
  • Dan 8:4 : 4 I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts could stand before him, nor was there any that could deliver from his hand; but he did according to his will and became great.
  • Dan 11:16 : 16 But he who comes against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed.
  • Nah 1:6 : 6 Who can stand before his indignation? And who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
  • Exod 9:11 : 11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians, and on all the Egyptians.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Deut 2:20-21
    2 verses
    82%

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

    21 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.

  • Deut 9:1
    82%

    1 Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

  • Num 13:28-29
    2 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Deut 1:28-29
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

    29 Then I said to you, Do not be terrified, nor be afraid of them.

  • Josh 23:9
    76%

    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 9:3
    74%

    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.

  • Josh 2:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that your terror has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.

    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.

  • Deut 2:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    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 7:1
    74%

    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;

  • Num 13:31-33
    3 verses
    73%

    31 But the men who went up with him said, We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.

    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.

  • Neh 9:24
    73%

    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 7:17
    73%

    17 If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

  • Deut 4:38
    73%

    38 To drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.

  • Deut 1:39
    73%

    39 Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.

  • Deut 11:2
    72%

    2 And know this day: for I speak not with your children who have not known or seen the discipline of the LORD your God, His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm,

  • Deut 3:18
    72%

    18 And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God has given you this land to possess; all you who are able shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel.

  • Deut 11:23
    72%

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

  • Deut 3:2
    72%

    2 And the LORD said to me, Do not fear him, for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.

  • Deut 11:25
    72%

    25 No man shall be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear and dread of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as He has said to you.

  • Josh 1:6
    72%

    6 Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land, which I swore to their fathers to give them.

  • Josh 24:11
    72%

    11 And you went over Jordan, and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.

  • Josh 9:1
    72%

    1 And it happened, when all the kings on this side of the Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and along all the coasts of the great sea opposite Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it;

  • Josh 3:10
    72%

    10 And Joshua said, By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

  • Josh 11:21
    72%

    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.

  • Josh 10:8
    72%

    8 And the LORD said to Joshua, Do not fear them, for I have delivered them into your hand; not a man of them shall stand before you.

  • Exod 34:11
    71%

    11 Observe what I command you this day: behold, I am driving out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

  • Josh 17:15
    71%

    15 Joshua answered them, "If you are a great people, then go up to the forest and cut down an area for yourselves there in the land of the Perizzites and the giants, if Mount Ephraim is too small for you."

  • Deut 2:25
    71%

    25 This day I will begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you upon the nations under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.

  • Num 13:18
    71%

    18 See the land, how it is; and the people who dwell in it, whether they are strong or weak, few or many;

  • Deut 7:19
    71%

    19 The great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD your God brought you out: so shall the LORD your God do to all the people of whom you are afraid.

  • Exod 1:9
    71%

    9 And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:

  • Deut 31:3
    71%

    3 The LORD your God, he will go over before you, and he will destroy these nations before you, and you shall possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before you, as the LORD has said.

  • Deut 1:21
    71%

    21 Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of your fathers has told you; do not fear, neither be discouraged.

  • Deut 2:29
    71%

    29 (as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar did unto me) until I cross over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God gives us.

  • Judg 1:20
    71%

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

  • Deut 1:8
    70%

    8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.

  • 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?

  • Deut 11:31
    70%

    31 For you shall pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you shall possess it and dwell in it.

  • 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 5:1
    70%

    1 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, who were on the west side of Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan before the children of Israel, until we had crossed over, that their hearts melted, and there was no spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.