Conquest by Caleb. ^13 (A)As the Lord had commanded, Joshua gave Caleb, son of Jephunneh,^(B) a portion among the Judahites, namely, Kiriath-arba (Arba was the father of Anak), that is, Hebron. ^14 (C)And Caleb dispossessed from there the three Anakim, the descendants of Anak: Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

^22 (A)Going up by way of the Negeb, they reached Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, descendants of the Anakim,^[a] were. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

²⁸ What shall we meet with up there? Our men have made our hearts melt by saying, ‘The people are bigger and taller than we, and their cities are large and fortified to the sky; besides, we saw the Anakim^[a] there.’”^(A)

Chapter 9

Unmerited Success. ¹ Hear, O Israel! You are now about to cross the Jordan to enter in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than yourselves, having large cities fortified to the heavens,^{(A) 2} the Anakim, a people great and tall.^(B) You yourselves know of them and have heard it said of them, “Who can stand up against the Anakim?” ³ Know, then, today that it is the Lord, your God, who will cross over before you as a consuming fire; he it is who will destroy them and subdue them before you, so that you can dispossess and remove them quickly, as the Lord promised you.^(C)