Judges 1:20

See the note on Judges 1:10.

as Moses had spoken Numbers 14:24 JE; cf. Deuteronomy 1:36; Joshua 14:6-15 D.

the three sons of Anak lit. of the Anak; the article shews that the noun is to be taken as a collective, i.e. as the name, not of an individual but of a tribe of people: similarly in Joshua 15:13. These Anâkites, or (long-) neckedpeople, were a race of very tall men, for centuries remembered by the Hebrews, Deuteronomy 1:28; Deuteronomy 9:2; they were specially associated with Hebron, Joshua 11:21; Joshua 14:12; Joshua 14:15.