Genesis 6:4 [show/hide]Genesis 6:4
[4]The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. (ESV)
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]Genesis 6:4
[4]The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. (ESV)
; Num. 13:33 [show/hide]Numbers 13:33
[33]And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them." (ESV)
]. 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]Numbers 13:33
[33]And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them." (ESV)
]. The Hebrew ‘gibbor’ is also translated ‘giant’, meaning powerful, giant, mighty, or strong man [Num. 13:33 [show/hide]Numbers 13:33
[33]And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them." (ESV)
; Job 16:14 [show/hide]Job 16:14
[14]He breaks me with breach upon breach;
he runs upon me like a warrior.
]. 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]Joshua 11:21-22
[21]And Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction with their cities. [22]There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain. (ESV)
; 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]Joshua 12:4
[4]and Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei (ESV)
; 13:12]. Bashan is called the land of the giants [Dt. 3;13].
A valley of the giants is mentioned in Josh. 15:8 [show/hide]Joshua 15:8
[8]Then the boundary goes up by the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the southern shoulder of the Jebusite (that is, Jerusalem). And the boundary goes up to the top of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Hinnom, on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim. (ESV)
; 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]Genesis 14:5
[5]In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim, (ESV)
; 15:20; 2 Sam. 5:18, 22 [show/hide]2 Samuel 5:18
[18]Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim. (ESV)
; 23:13; 1 Chron. 11:15 [show/hide]1 Chronicles 11:15
[15]Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David at the cave of Adullam, when the army of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim. (ESV)
; 14:9; Isa. 17:5 [show/hide]Isaiah 17:5
[5]And it shall be as when the reaper gathers standing grain
and his arm harvests the ears,
and as when one gleans the ears of grain
in the Valley of Rephaim.
]. 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]Job 26:5
[5]The dead tremble
under the waters and their inhabitants.
; Ps. 88:10 [show/hide]Psalm 88:10
[10]Do you work wonders for the dead?
Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah
; Pr. 2:18 [show/hide]Proverbs 2:18
[18]for her house sinks down to death,
and her paths to the departed;
; 9:18; 21:16; Isa. 14:8 [show/hide]Isaiah 14:8
[8]The cypresses rejoice at you,
the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
'Since you were laid low,
no woodcutter comes up against us.'
26:19]: and ‘deceased’ [Isa. 26:14 [show/hide]Isaiah 26:14
[14]They are dead, they will not live;
they are shades, they will not arise;
to that end you have visited them with destruction
and wiped out all remembrance of them.
]. 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]2 Samuel 21:16
[16]And Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze, and who was armed with a new sword, thought to kill David. (ESV)
; 1Chron. 20:4, 6, 8 [show/hide]ERROR: No passage found for your query.
] and ‘giants’ [Dt. 2:11, 20; 3:11, 13; Josh. 12:4 [show/hide]Joshua 12:4
[4]and Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei (ESV)
; 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]Joshua 12:4
[4]and Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei (ESV)
; 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]Genesis 6:4
[4]The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. (ESV)
; 14:5-6; 15:19-21; Ex. 3:8, 17 [show/hide]Exodus 3:8
[8]and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. (ESV)
; 23:23; Dt. 2:10-12, 20-23; 3:11-13; 7:1; 20:17; Josh. 12:4-8 [show/hide]Joshua 12:4-8
[4]and Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei [5]and ruled over Mount Hermon and Salecah and all Bashan to the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and over half of Gilead to the boundary of Sihon king of Heshbon. [6]Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the people of Israel defeated them. And Moses the servant of the LORD gave their land for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Kings Defeated by Joshua
[7]And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotments, [8]in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites): (ESV)
; 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]Joshua 12:4
[4]and Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei (ESV)
; 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]2 Samuel 21:16-22
[16]And Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze, and who was armed with a new sword, thought to kill David. [17]But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, "You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel."
[18]After this there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Saph, who was one of the descendants of the giants. [19]And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite, struck down Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. [20]And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was descended from the giants. [21]And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, struck him down. [22]These four were descended from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants. (ESV)
; 1 Chr. 20:4-8 [show/hide]1 Chronicles 20:4-8
Philistine Giants Killed
[4]And after this there arose war with the Philistines at Gezer. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Sippai, who was one of the descendants of the giants, and the Philistines were subdued. [5]And there was again war with the Philistines, and Elhanan the son of Jair struck down Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. [6]And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was descended from the giants. [7]And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David's brother, struck him down. [8]These were descended from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants. (ESV)
]. 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]1 Samuel 17:4-6
[4]And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. [5]He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze. [6]And he had bronze armor on his legs, and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders. (ESV)
]. 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]Isaiah 26:14
[14]They are dead, they will not live;
they are shades, they will not arise;
to that end you have visited them with destruction
and wiped out all remembrance of them.
] 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]John 5:28-29
[28]Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice [29]and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. (ESV)
]; 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]Isaiah 14:9
[9]Sheol beneath is stirred up
to meet you when you come;
it rouses the shades to greet you,
all who were leaders of the earth;
it raises from their thrones
all who were kings of the nations.
]. Solomon confirms the same in Pr. 2:18 [show/hide]Proverbs 2:18
[18]for her house sinks down to death,
and her paths to the departed;
; 9:18; 21:16 where the word ‘dead’ is ‘Rephaim’ in the Hebrew Bible. See notes Isa. 26:12, 19 [show/hide]Isaiah 26:12
[12]O LORD, you will ordain peace for us,
for you have indeed done for us all our works.
.
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]Genesis 1:11-12
[11]And God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth." And it was so. [12]The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. (ESV)
; 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]Numbers 13:33
[33]And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them." (ESV)
; 2 Sam. 21:16, 18, 20, 22 [show/hide]2 Samuel 21:16
[16]And Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze, and who was armed with a new sword, thought to kill David. (ESV)
; 1 Chr. 20:4-8 [show/hide]1 Chronicles 20:4-8
Philistine Giants Killed
[4]And after this there arose war with the Philistines at Gezer. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Sippai, who was one of the descendants of the giants, and the Philistines were subdued. [5]And there was again war with the Philistines, and Elhanan the son of Jair struck down Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. [6]And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was descended from the giants. [7]And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David's brother, struck him down. [8]These were descended from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants. (ESV)
].
5. NO. 5 – PART TWO CONTINUED.
- Dake Annotated Reference Bible: page 62.
