John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 2. A people great and tall , etc.] Of a large bulky size, and of an high stature, so that the spies seemed to be as grasshoppers to them, ( Numbers 13:33), the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest ; by report, having had an account of them by the spies, who described them as very large bodied men, and of a gigantic stature, the descendants of one Anak, a giant; and so the Targum of Jonathan, “a people strong and high like the giants;” from these Bene Anak, children of Anak, or Phene Anak, as the words might be pronounced, the initial letter of the first word being of the same sound, Bochart thinks the country had its name of Phoenicia: and of whom thou hast heard say, who can stand before the children, of Anak ? or the children of the giants, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan; which they had heard either from the spies who had suggested the same, ( Numbers 13:31) or as a common proverb in the mouths of most people in those days.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-6 - Moses represents the strength of the enemies they were now to encounter. This was to drive them to God, and engage their hope in him He assures them of victory, by the presence of God with them. He cautions them not to have the least thought of their own righteousness as if that procured this favour at God's hand. In Christ we have bot righteousness and strength; in Him we must glory, not in ourselves, no in any sufficiency of our own. It is for the wickedness of thes nations that God drives them out. All whom God rejects, are rejecte for their own wickedness; but none whom he accepts are accepted for their own righteousness. Thus boasting is for ever done away: see Ep 2:9, 11, 12.
Original Hebrew עם5971 גדול1419 ורם7311 בני1121 ענקים6062 אשׁר834 אתה859 ידעת3045 ואתה859 שׁמעת8085 מי4310 יתיצב3320 לפני6440 בני1121 ענק׃6061
