Caleb drove out the three groups of Anakites—the descendants of Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the sons of Anak.
Parallel translations
- WEB Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
- KJV And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
- BSB And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak—the descendants of Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
- NKJV Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak from there: Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
- NASB And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
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Caleb drives out the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai. The giants who terrified Israel are defeated by faith.
Overview
These descendants of Anak were the very giants whose presence caused Israel's earlier unbelief at Kadesh (Numbers 13:22, 28). Now Caleb, still vigorous in old age, expels them in the strength of the Lord. His victory shows that the obstacles which paralyze unbelief are overcome by faith that trusts God's promise.
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- Judg 1:10Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron. (The name of Hebron before that was Kiriath Arba.) They struck Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.
- Judg 1:20They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, and he drove the three sons of Anak out of there.
- Josh 11:21Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.
- Num 13:22–23They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
- Num 13:33There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”
- Josh 10:36–37Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron; and they fought against it.
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