Command the Raven

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Then we turned, and went up the way of Bashan: and Og the King of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
And we took all the cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

Og was a giant, one of the Rephaim, a man who had a bedstead 18 ft. l 4 in. wide [v11]. Some tribes were made up of many giants; but it appears that the Rephaim branch was about exterminated.

The Argob: The name of a region east of Jordan, part of the kingdom of Og [v4; Ki.4:13].

It was in Bashan, called the land of SACRED ROMANCE, which of course, suggest the marriages of sons of God with daughters of men, as taught in Scripture.

The giants produced by such union [after the flood] were a constant terror to Israel from the Exodus to the time of David.

The Argob, and in fact, all of Bashan was occupied by giants in ancient times is evident from the massive structure of the cities, many remains of which still exist.

Travellers say that the houses are huge blocks of basalt [dark marble], a particular feature being the almost absence of wood.

Doors, staircases, galleries, roofs and other parts of buildings are made of marble. The houses of Bashan truly show evidence of not being ordinary ones.

Some of the walls are 5 to 8 feet thick and built of large squared blocks. Roof slabs of basalt are as much as 6 inches thick while some ceilings are 20 to 30 feet high and doors are 10 feet or more high.
- see page 62 giants: Dake A.R.B.
- Dake A.R.B. : Page 210.

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And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, that was of the children of the giant: and they were subdued.

The last 5 giants slain:

1. Sippai [v 4]. Called Saph [2 Sam. 21:18 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
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2. Lahmi, brother of Goliath [v 5; 2 Sam. 21:19 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
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3. The Giant with 6 fingers and 6 toes on each hand and foot [v 6-8; 2 Sam. 21:20-22 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
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4. Ishbi-benob [2 Sam. 21:16-17 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
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5. Goliath [1 Sam. 21:16-17 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
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These 5 giants were brothers. In 2 Samuel 21:22 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
it states that these 4 were brothers; and 21:19 makes it clear that they were brothers of Goliath, who made up the 5.

From v 5 here we also learn that Lahmi was the brother of Goliath.

These were the last of the mighty races of giants who were the offspring of fallen angels and women in Satan’s efforts to do away with pure Adamite stock so that the Seed of the woman might not come into the world to redeem Adam’s race.
- Dake A.R. Bible: page 441

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There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

5. Not only is it unscriptural but unhistorical to teach that giants came from the union of ordinary men and women. The great question has been: WHERE DID THE GIANTS GET THEIR START? Genesis 6:4 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
makes it clear – from the union of the sons of God and daughters of men. If the sons of God were ordinary men in the same sense that the daughters of men were ordinary women, THEN we must conclude 4 things:

1] That godly women have the power to produce such monsters if married to godly men, OR,

2] That godly men have the power to produce giants when married to ungodly women.

3] That a mixture of godliness and wickedness produces giants.

4] That extreme wickedness on the part of either parent will produce giant offspring. All 4 conclusions are wrong however, as proved every day by the marriages of unconverted persons with the converted and the producing of offspring through the union of a wicked parent and a godly one. Thus, the theory that giants came from the marriage of Seth’s sons with Cain’s daughters is disproved.

6. The sons of God could not have been the sons of Seth or other godly men for the following 7 reasons:

[1] There were no men godly enough to be saved during the Antediluvian Age except

ABEL [Gen. 4:4 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
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ENOCH [5:21-24; Heb. 11:5 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
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and NOAH [6:8; 7:1; Heb. 11:7 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
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as far as Scripture records are concerned. Shall we conclude that these 3 men were the sons of God who married the daughter of Cain and produced races of giants in the earth IN THOSE DAYS before the flood [6:4]? We have no record of any such marriage or offspring of Abel before he was murdered. Regarding Enoch, are we to believe that Methuselah and his other children were the giants? Are we to believe that Noah’s 3 sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth were giants? If so, where is our authority for this? Had this been true, there would have been nothing on earth after the flood but giants born of Noah’s giant sons, for by his children the whole earth was then replenished [10:1-32]. That would cause another unsolved mystery – how giants became ordinary sized men again.

[2] The time of the marriages of the sons of God disproves the theory that they were the sons of Seth. Marriages of Seth’s sons could not have taken place during the first 325 years, for he had only one son of marriageable age up to that time [5;1-8] and he [ENOS] was not godly. See note f, Gen. 4:26 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
. To say there were no such marriages before Enos would contradict Gen. 6:1-2 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
which shows that sons of God married daughters of men when such daughters were not born in the first 325 years? If so, then where did Cain, Seth and others get their wives? Furthermore, such marriages between godly sons and ungodly daughters could not have been during the last 600 years before the flood, because Noah was the only son of God by righteousness during this time [Gen. 6:8-9 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
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]. His sons were preserved in the ark because of being pure Adamite stock and not because of personal righteousness. The foregoing facts then, would limit these marriages to the 731 yeaars between the first 325 years and the last 600 of the Antediluvian Age; whereas, sonsof God actually married daughters of men throughout the entire 1,656 years of that age. Genesis 6:1-2 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
makes it clear that this happened “when men began to multiply on the face of the earth.”

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teaches that there were giants on the earth IN THOSE DAYS [before the flood] and also AFTER THAT [after those days which were before the flood] as a result of the sons of God marrying the daughters of men. If, as is taught, the sons of God were the sons of Seth, we can account for the AFTER THAT [after the flood], for the line of Seth was continued through Noah. But, with the daughters of Cain [supposed to be the daughters of men], the story is different. Cain’s line perished in the flood, both men and women, which means there were no daughters of Cain after the flood, for sons of God to marry.

[4] The Bible gives us no reason to believe that the statement “the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair” should be limited to Cain’s daughters. Other families had daughters too, thousands of families which made up the many branches of the race both BEFORE and AFTER the flood. These were DAUGHTERS OF MEN, too. In the 1,656 years before the flood [which is the period in which Seth and Cain lived], there must have been from 150,000,000 to 500,000,000 people. It is unbelievable that so many as half of these were godly and half ungodly; and we know that they were not limited to two lines – the line of Seth and the line of Cain. Regarding Seth’s daughter we have reason to believe that they were as FAIR as the daughters of Cain – beautiful enough to attract men as husbands for themselves. The line of Seth alone survived the flood, so we know this is true. Genesis 6:1-2 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
therefore, cannot be said to refer only to the daughters of Cain; and the term DAUGHTERS OF MEN cannot be limited to mean only the daughters of Cain.

[5] The very expression, SONS OF GOD and DAUGHTERS OF MEN, indicate two different kinds – one the product of man. Seth was not God, so why call the sons of God the sons of Seth?

[6] It is a matter of record that Seth’s children were as ungodly as Cain’s. The first-born even started idolatry, as proved in note f, Gen. 4:26 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
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[7] With the exception of Noah and his family ALL FLESH had CORRUPTED HIS WAY upon the earth, before the flood [Gen. 6:12 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
], which means the entire race [besides Noah’s family] had become a mixture of fallen angels and men, or giants. Only Noah and his family had preserved their pedigree pure from Adam; and this is really why they were saved in the Ark. They were the only ones capable of giving the race a new, clean start after the flood. It is said of Noah that he was a just man and PERFECT in his generation [Gen. 6:9 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
]. The word for ‘perfect’ in the Hebrew is ‘tamim’, which means ‘without blemish’. It is the technical word for bodily perfection, and not moral perfection. Hence it is used of the sacrificial animals of the O.T. which had to be of pure stock and WITHOUT BLEMISH [Ex. 12:5 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
; 29:1; Lev. 1:3 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
; 3:1-6; 4:3, 23-32; 5:15-18; 6:6; 9:2-3; Ezek. 43:22-25; 45:18-23]; WITHOUT SPOT [Numb. 19:2; 28:3-11; 29:17, 26]; and UNDEFILED [Ps. 119:1 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
]. The use of this word in connection with Noah means that he and his sons were the only pure Adamites left, and for such purity they [regardless of the sons’ position in personal holiness] were all preserved in the ark.
- Dake Annotated Reference Bible: page 62-63.

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There were giants in the earth in those days: and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

PROOFS GIANTS WERE SONS OF ANGELS:

1. The fact that giants or beings of abnormal size in body, have lived on earth is one of the most clearly stated truths in Scripture. The Hebrew ‘nephilim’ from ‘nephil’ means giant, bully, or tyrant [Gen. 6:4 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
; Num. 13:33 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
]. That they were abnormal in bodily size is clear from the fact that men or Israel were ‘as grasshoppers’ in size compared to them [Num. 13:33 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
]. The Hebrew ‘gibbor’ is also translated ‘giant’, meaning powerful, giant, mighty, or strong man [Num. 13:33 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
; Job 16:14 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
]. To say that these original words refer to degree of wickedness instead of size in body, is a mistake.

The Anakims were a people great and tall in body [Dt. 1:28; 2:10-11, 21; 9:2; Josh. 11:21-22 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
; 14:12-14]. Anak himself was of giants and if he and all Anakims were so big, we can be assured the other giants were also [Numb. 13:22, 33]. The land of Ammon was a land of giants, for giants dwelled there in old time [Dt. 2:19-20]. The ‘Emims’ were also ‘great, many and tall’ as the Anakims [Dt. 2:10-11]. ‘Zamzummims’ were called giants, a people ‘great, many, and tall’ as the Anakims. They dwelled in the land of Ammon from of old [Dt. 2:19-21]. Og, king of Bashan, is described as a giant whose bedstead was of iron and about 18 ½ ft. long and 8 ft. 4 in. wide. T his is not a measurement of wickedness, but of a material bed for a giant body measuring not too far from 18 ft. tall [Dt. 3:11; Josh. 12:4 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
; 13:12]. Bashan is called the land of the giants [Dt. 3;13].

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; 18:16. This is the same as the valley of Rephaim, the name of another branch of the giant races so often mentioned in Scripture [Gen. 14:5 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
; 15:20; 2 Sam. 5:18, 22 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
; 23:13; 1 Chron. 11:15 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
; 14:9; Isa. 17:5 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
]. The Rephaims were well known giants, but unfortunately, instead of retaining their proper name in Scripture the translators translated it ‘dead’ [Job 26:5 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
; Ps. 88:10 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
; Pr. 2:18 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
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26:19]: and ‘deceased’ [Isa. 26:14 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
]. The word should have been retained as a proper name in all these places, as it is 10 times otherwise. See notes on these passages which prove giant bodies are referred to instead of great wickedness.

Rephaim is translated ‘giant’ [2 Sam. 21:16, 18, 20, 22 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
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] and ‘giants’ [Dt. 2:11, 20; 3:11, 13; Josh. 12:4 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
; 13:12; 15:8; 18:16]. The p h r a s e ‘remnant of the giants’ in Dt. 3:11; Josh. 12:4 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
; 13:12 should be ‘remnant of the Rephaims, for there were many nations of giants other than the Rephaims who filled the whole country trying to contest God’s claim on the promised land. They are listed as: Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaims, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, Jebusites, Hivites, Anakims, Emims, Horims, Avims, Zamummims, Caphtorims, and Nephilim [Gen. 6:4 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
; 14:5-6; 15:19-21; Ex. 3:8, 17 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
; 23:23; Dt. 2:10-12, 20-23; 3:11-13; 7:1; 20:17; Josh. 12:4-8 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
; 13:3; 15:8; 17:15; 18:16]. Og was of the remnant of Rephaims, not the remnant of all other giant nations [Dt. 3:11; Josh. 12:4 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
; 13:12.

All these giant nations came from a union of the sons of God [fallen angels] and daughter of men after the flood. Beings of great stature, some of them even had 6 fingers on each hand and 6 toes on each foot and carried spears weighing from 10-25 lbs. [2 Sam. 21:16-22 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
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]. Goliath whom David slew wore a coat of armour weighing 196 lbs. and was about 13 ft. tall [1 Sam. 17:4-6 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
]. It is entirely possible that the pyramids of Egypt, the giant cities of Bashan and other huge monuments of construction will remain an unsolved mystery until they are accepted as the result of labor and skill by fallen-angel fathers.

The revelations we have of giants, in Scripture gives us a true picture of what Greek mythology tries in vain to give. Ours is an accurate account because divinely inspired. Mythology is the outgrowth of traditions, memories, and legends telling of the acts of the supernatural fathers and their giant off-spring – the perverseness and corruption in transmission of actual facts concerning these mighty beings. The fact that giants were partly of supernatural origin made it easy for men to regard them as gods.

2. The fact that Rephaim have no resurrection [Isa. 26:14 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
] proves the reality of giants and that they were not ordinary men. All ordinary men are to be resurred [Jn. 5:28-29 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
]; therefore, giants must be a different class from pure Adamites. Isaiah makes it clear that ‘the dead’ [Hebrew, Rephaim] are now in hell [Isa. 14:9 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
]. Solomon confirms the same in Pr. 2:18 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
; 9:18; 21:16 where the word ‘dead’ is ‘Rephaim’ in the Hebrew Bible. See notes Isa. 26:12, 19 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
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3. The fact that giants came only from unions of sons of God and daughters of men proves that their fathers were not ordinary men of the Adamite stock. No such monstrosities have been nor can be produced from a union of any ordinary men and woman, regardless of how righteous the father is or how wicked the mother is. Many converted men who are ‘sons of God in the sense of adoption and righteousness through Christ’, have been married to unconverted women, and no such offspring the size of Bible giants has ever resulted from these unions. If, as some teach, giants were born of such unions why do not such marriages produce that kind of offspring today? Why did this happen in every case then and in no case today?

4. God’s law of reproduction from the beginning has been ‘everything after his own kind’. It was not possible then, that giants could be produced by men and women [Gen. 1:11-12, 21, 24-25 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
; 8:19] of ordinary size. It took the supernatural element, the purpose and power of Satan and his angels to make offspring of such extra size within the human species. After the variation of the species, which had to do with size only, and when giants had come into being, they then produced others of like size instead of ordinary sized men [Num. 13:33 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
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5. NO. 5 – PART TWO CONTINUED.
- Dake Annotated Reference Bible: page 62.

Sons of God:
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That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

Seth did not have a son until 235 years after creation; and his son did not have a son until 325 years after creation [Genesis 5:3, 6, 9 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
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Where did these sons come from? They could not have been sons of Seth, for these marriages took place when men began to multiply – in the very beginning of the race before Seth had sons of marriageable age.

The term ‘sons of God’ proves that they were the product of God, not of Seth. They were the fallen angels of 1 Peter 3:19 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
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See also the Septuagint; Josephus, p. 36; Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V111, P. 273; and ‘Giants and sons of God’ p. 62 Dake.

Giants after the Flood:
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There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Also after that, after those days before the flood, i.e., after the flood, the sons of God again married the daughters of men and produced a second race of giants in the earth who occupied the land of Canaan in advance of Abraham.

The purpose here was the same as before the flood – to corrupt the race and thereby make it impossible for the pure ‘seed of the woman’ to come as predicted. See ‘Giants and Sons of God’ page 62 Dake.

Marriage of sons of God:
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When the sons of God married the daughters of men, as before the flood, giants were again born to them. This definitely answers the question regarding where the giants ‘before’ and ‘after’ the flood came from [Gen. 6:1-4 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
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6 Outstanding facts in Genesis 6:4 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)

1. There were two eruptions of angels
2. Two times the fallen angels married earthly women
3. Both times the angels became fathers of children born by the women
4. All children so born, were giants
5. One of the times this wickedness took place was before Noah’s flood
6. The other time was after Noah’s flood.
- Dake Annotated Reference Bible: page 14