28 Where can we go? Our brothers have made us lose heart,[a](A) saying: The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, fortified to the heavens.(B) We also saw the descendants of the Anakim(C) there.’

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Footnotes

  1. 1:28 Lit have melted our hearts

All these were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a large number of rural villages.

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Warning against Self-Righteousness

“Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and drive out nations greater and stronger than you,(A) with large cities fortified to the heavens.(B)

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12 Now give me this hill country the Lord promised me on that day, because you heard then that the Anakim are there,(A) as well as large fortified cities.(B) Perhaps the Lord will be with me and I will drive them out as the Lord promised.”

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