Numbers 13:22 meaning and explanation

They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

Numbers 13:22, Berean Standard Bible

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The spies sent by Moses from the Wilderness of Paran travel north through the Negev and reach Hebron in the hill country. The narrator notes that Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, descendants of Anak, lived there, a detail that will feed the fearful report in verse 33.

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