“Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.”
Whither shall we go up? Our brethren have made our heart melt, saying, 'The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there' -- the report of physical superiority (height, fortifications, giants) becomes the basis for despair. The phrase 'made our heart melt' is literal (namas, to melt/dissolve): fear liquefies resolve. The Anakim (giants, remnants of the Rephaites) become symbols of impossibility. Yet the obstacles are real; the problem is the response to them.
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