9 “Hear, O Israel, today you are crossing the Jordan+ to go in and dispossess nations greater and mightier than you,+ cities great and fortified to the heavens,*+ 2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anʹa·kim,+ about whom you know and have heard it said, ‘Who can stand up to the sons of Aʹnak?’

21 At that time Joshua wiped out the Anʹa·kim+ from the mountainous region, from Hebʹron, Deʹbir, Aʹnab, and all the mountainous region of Judah and all the mountainous region of Israel. Joshua devoted them and their cities to destruction.+