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There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

11:22 none of the Anakims. All the giant Anakims, who had so frightened the earlier generation of Israelites (Numbers 13:31-33), were as easily defeated by Joshua as the other Canaanites, with the exception of those along the lower seacoast, nearest Egypt.


11:22 in Gath. Gath was one of just three cities where some of the families of giants among the Anakim survived, and it was from Gath that Goliath, the giant killed by David over three hundred years later, had come (I Samuel 17:4).


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