Ulangan 1:27-28

1:27 You complained among yourselves privately ¹  and said, “Because the Lord hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us! 1:28 What is going to happen to us? Our brothers have drained away our courage ²  by describing people who are more numerous ³  and taller than we are, and great cities whose defenses appear to be as high as heaven ⁴  itself! Moreover, they said they saw ⁵  Anakites ⁶  there.”

[1:27]  ¹ tn Heb “in your tents,” that is, privately.

[1:28]  ² tn Heb “have caused our hearts to melt.”

[1:28]  ³ tn Heb “greater.” Many English versions understand this to refer to physical size or strength rather than numbers (cf. “stronger,” NAB, NIV, NRSV; “bigger,” NASB).

[1:28]  ⁴ tn Or “as the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[1:28]  ⁵ tn Heb “we have seen.”

[1:28]  ⁶ tn Heb “the sons of the Anakim.”

[1:28]  sn Anakites were giant people (Num 13:33; Deut 2:10, 21; 9:2) descended from a certain Anak whose own forefather Arba founded the city of Kiriath Arba, i.e., Hebron (Josh 21:11).