Ancients: IV
Numbers 13 NASB - Spies View the Land - Then the LORD - Bible Gateway
[SUP]21 [/SUP]So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, [SUP][
f][/SUP]at Lebo-hamath. [SUP]22 [/SUP]When they had gone up into the Negev, [SUP][
g][/SUP]they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the [SUP][
h][/SUP]descendants of Anak were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
[SUP]23 [/SUP]Then they came to the [SUP][
i][/SUP]valley of [SUP][
j][/SUP]Eshcol and from there cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes; and they carried it on a pole between two
men, with some of the pomegranates and the figs. [SUP]24 [/SUP]That place was called the valley of [SUP][
k][/SUP]Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut down from there.
The Spies’ Reports
[SUP]25 [/SUP]When they returned from spying out the land, at the end of forty days, [SUP]26 [/SUP]they proceeded to come to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel [SUP][
l][/SUP]in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; and they brought back word to them and to all the congregation and showed them the fruit of the land. [SUP]27 [/SUP]Thus they told him, and said, “We went in to the land where you sent us; and it certainly does flow with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. [SUP]28 [/SUP]Nevertheless, the people who live in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified
and very large; and moreover, we saw the [SUP][
m][/SUP]descendants of Anak there. [SUP]29 [/SUP]Amalek is living in the land of the Negev and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill country, and the Canaanites are living by the sea and by the side of the Jordan.”
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30 [/SUP]Then Caleb quieted the people [SUP][
n][/SUP]before Moses and said, “We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we will surely overcome it.” [SUP]31 [/SUP]But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are too strong for us.” [SUP]32 [/SUP]So they gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone, in spying it out, is a land that devours its [SUP][
o][/SUP]inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of
great size. [SUP]33 [/SUP]There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
Deuteronomy 1 NASB - Israel’s History after the Exodus - Bible Gateway
[SUP]26 [/SUP]“Yet you were not willing to go up, but rebelled against the [SUP][
p][/SUP]command of the Lord your God; [SUP]27 [/SUP]and you grumbled in your tents and said, ‘Because the Lord hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us. [SUP]28 [/SUP]Where can we go up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are bigger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified to heaven. And besides, we saw the sons of the Anakim there.”’ [SUP]29 [/SUP]Then I said to you, ‘Do not be shocked, nor fear them. [SUP]30 [/SUP]The Lord your God who goes before you will Himself fight on your behalf, [SUP][
q][/SUP]just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, [SUP]31 [/SUP]and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, just as a man carries his son, in all the way which you have walked until you came to this place.’ [SUP]32 [/SUP]But [SUP][
r][/SUP]for all this, you did not trust the Lord your God, [SUP]33 [/SUP]who goes before you on
your way, to seek out a place for you to encamp, in fire by night and cloud by day, to show you the way in which you should go.
[SUP]34 [/SUP]“Then the Lord heard the sound of your words, and He was angry and took an oath, saying, [SUP]35 [/SUP]‘Not one of these men, this evil generation, shall see the good land which I swore to give your fathers, [SUP]36 [/SUP]except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and to his sons I will give the land on which he has set foot, because he has followed the Lord fully.’ [SUP]37 [/SUP]The Lord was angry with me also on your account, saying, ‘Not even you shall enter there. [SUP]38 [/SUP]Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter there; encourage him, for he will cause Israel to inherit it. [SUP]39 [/SUP]Moreover, your little ones who you said would become a prey, and your sons, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, shall enter there, and I will give it to them and they shall possess it. [SUP]40 [/SUP]But as for you, turn around and set out for the wilderness by the way to the [SUP][
s][/SUP]Red Sea.’
[SUP]41 [/SUP]“Then you said to me, ‘We have sinned against the Lord; we will indeed go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ And every man of you girded on his weapons of war, and regarded it as easy to go up into the hill country. [SUP]42 [/SUP]And the Lord said to me, ‘Say to them, “Do not go up nor fight, for I am not among you; otherwise you will be [SUP][
t][/SUP]defeated before your enemies.”’ [SUP]43 [/SUP]So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. Instead you rebelled against the [SUP][
u][/SUP]command of the Lord, and acted presumptuously and went up into the hill country. [SUP]44 [/SUP]The Amorites who [SUP][
v][/SUP]lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do, and crushed you from Seir to Hormah. [SUP]45 [/SUP]Then you returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord did not listen to your voice nor give ear to you. [SUP]46 [/SUP]So you remained in Kadesh many days, [SUP][
w][/SUP]the days that you spent
there.
Deuteronomy 9 NASB - Israel Provoked God - “Hear, O - Bible Gateway
Israel Provoked God
9 “Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, great cities [SUP][
a][/SUP]fortified to heaven, [SUP]2 [/SUP]a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard
it said, ‘Who can stand before the sons of Anak?’ [SUP]3 [/SUP]Know therefore today that it is the Lord your God who is crossing over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and He will subdue them before you, so that you may drive them out and destroy them quickly, just as the Lord has spoken to you.
1 Samuel 17 NASB - Goliath’s Challenge - Now the - Bible Gateway
Goliath’s Challenge
17 Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle; and they were gathered at Socoh which belongs to Judah, and they camped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim. [SUP]2 [/SUP]Saul and the men of Israel were gathered and camped in the valley of Elah, and drew up in battle array to encounter the Philistines. [SUP]3 [/SUP]The Philistines stood on the mountain on one side while Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with the valley between them. [SUP]4 [/SUP]Then a champion came out from the armies of the Philistines named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six [SUP][
a][/SUP]cubits and a span. [SUP]5 [/SUP]
He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was clothed with scale-armor [SUP][
b][/SUP]which weighed five thousand shekels of bronze. [SUP]6 [/SUP]
He also
had bronze [SUP][
c][/SUP]greaves on his legs and a bronze javelin
slung between his shoulders. [SUP]7 [/SUP]The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and the head of his spear
weighed six hundred shekels of iron; his shield-carrier also walked before him. [SUP]8 [/SUP]He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel and said to them, “Why do you come out to draw up in battle array? Am I not the Philistine and you servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me. [SUP]9 [/SUP]If he is able to fight with me and [SUP][
d][/SUP]kill me, then we will become your servants; but if I prevail against him and [SUP][
e][/SUP]kill him, then you shall become our servants and serve us.” [SUP]10 [/SUP]Again the Philistine said, “I defy the ranks of Israel this day; give me a man that we may fight together.” [SUP]11 [/SUP]When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.
2 Samuel 21 NASB - Gibeonite Revenge - Now there was a - Bible Gateway
[SUP]15 [/SUP]Now when the Philistines were at war again with Israel, David went down and his servants with him; and as they fought against the Philistines, David became weary. [SUP]16 [/SUP]Then Ishbi-benob, who was among the descendants of the [SUP][
j][/SUP]giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred
shekels of bronze in weight, [SUP][
k][/SUP]was girded with a new
sword, and he [SUP][
l][/SUP]intended to kill David. [SUP]17 [/SUP]But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “You shall not go out again with us to battle, so that you do not extinguish the lamp of Israel.”
[SUP]18 [/SUP]Now it came about after this that there was war again with the Philistines at Gob; then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Saph, who was among the descendants of the [SUP][
m][/SUP]giant. [SUP]19 [/SUP]There was war with the Philistines again at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Bethlehemite [SUP][
n][/SUP]killed [SUP][
o][/SUP]Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam. [SUP]20 [/SUP]There was war at Gath again, where there was a man of
great stature who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also had been born to the [SUP][
p][/SUP]giant. [SUP]21 [/SUP]When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, struck him down. [SUP]22 [/SUP]These four were born to the [SUP][
q][/SUP]giant in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.
1 Chronicles 11 NASB - David Made King over All Israel - Then - Bible Gateway
[SUP]22 [/SUP]Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, mighty in deeds, struck down the [SUP][
n][/SUP]two
sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and [SUP][
o][/SUP]killed a lion inside a pit on a snowy day. [SUP]23 [/SUP]He [SUP][
p][/SUP]killed an Egyptian, a man of
great stature five [SUP][
q][/SUP]cubits tall. Now in the Egyptian’s hand
was a spear like a weaver’s beam, but he went down to him with a club and snatched the spear from the Egyptian’s hand and [SUP][
r][/SUP]killed him with his own spear. [SUP]24 [/SUP]These
things Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did, and had a name as well as the three mighty men. [SUP]25 [/SUP]Behold, he was honored among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three; and David appointed him over his guard.
1 Chronicles 20 NASB - War with Philistine Giants - Then it - Bible Gateway
War with Philistine Giants
20 Then it happened [SUP][
a][/SUP]in the spring, at the time when kings go out
to battle, that Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the sons of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. And Joab struck Rabbah and overthrew it. [SUP]2 [/SUP]David took the crown of [SUP][
b][/SUP]their king from his head, and he found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there was a precious stone in it; and it was placed on David’s head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount. [SUP]3 [/SUP]He brought out the people who
were in it, and cut
them with saws and with sharp instruments and with axes. And thus David did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned
to Jerusalem.
[SUP]4 [/SUP]Now it came about after this, that war [SUP][
c][/SUP]broke out at [SUP][
d][/SUP]Gezer with the Philistines; then Sibbecai the Hushathite [SUP][
e][/SUP]killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the [SUP][
f][/SUP]giants, and they were subdued. [SUP]5 [/SUP]And there was war with the Philistines again, and Elhanan the son of Jair [SUP][
g][/SUP]killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear
was like a weaver’s beam. [SUP]6 [/SUP]Again there was war at Gath, where there was a man of
great stature who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six
fingers on each hand and six
toes on each foot; and he also was descended from the giants. [SUP]7 [/SUP]When he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David’s brother, [SUP][
h][/SUP]killed him. [SUP]8 [/SUP]These were descended from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.