our brethren = our own brethren. Compare Num_13:28.
heart. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "hearts" (plural)
taller = greater. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint, read "more in number".
walled, &c. Figure of speech Hyperbole.App-6.
Anakims. First occurrence; elsewhere, Deu_2:10, Deu_2:11, Deu_2:21; Deu_9:2. Jos_11:21, Jos_11:22; Jos_14:12, Jos_14:15. See App-25. For "sons of Anak", see note on Num_13:22.