Deuteronomy 2:21
A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead: A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:
The verse stands within God's direct command to Israel as they neared the Ammonites not to harass them, not to contend with them in battle, and not to seize any of their territory for possession. The ground given for that restraint was kinship, that the Ammonites were the descendants of Lot and their land had been assigned to them on that account. The command therefore set Ammon off limits to conquest even while Israel was advancing toward further victories in the region of Bashan. In that setting the description of the great, numerous, and tall people destroyed before Ammon serves to show why Ammon held its land by divine grant rather than by its own strength.