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The Giants – Part 2

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Proverbs 9:18 But he knows not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. 

Rephaim is translated “giant” in Deuteronomy 2:11, 20; 3:11, 13; Joshua 12:4; 13:12; 15:8; 18:16; 2Samuel 21:16, 18, 20, 22; 1Chronicles 20:4, 6, 8. The phrase “remnant of the giants” in Deuteronomy 3:11 and Joshua 12:4; 13:12 should be “remnant of the Rephaims,” because 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, Zamzummims, Caphtorims, and Nephilims (Gen. 6:4; 14:5-6; 15:19-21; Ex. 3:8, 17; 23:23; Deut. 2:10-12, 20-23; 3:11-13; 7:1; 20:17; Jos. 12:4-8; 13:3; 15:8; 17:15; 18:16). Og was of the remnant of Rephaims, not the remnant of all other giant nations (Deut. 3:11; Jos. 12:4; 13:12).

All these giant nations came from a union of the sons of God (fallen angels) and daughters of men after the flood. Beings of great stature, some of them even had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot and carried spears weighing from 4,5 to 11 kilogrammes (2Sam. 21:16-22; 1Chr. 20:4-8). Goliath, whom David slew, wore a coat of armour weighing 89 kilogrammes and was 3 metres tall (1Sam. 17:4-6). The pyramids of Egypt, the giant cities of Bashan and other huge monuments of construction may remain a mystery until they are accepted as the result of the labour and skill of giants.

The revelation of giants in Scripture gives us a true picture of what Greek mythology tries vainly to give. Mythology is but the outgrowth of traditions, memories, and legends telling of the acts of supernatural fathers and their giant offspring – the perversion and corruption in the transmission of actual facts concerning these mighty beings. The fact that giants were partly of supernatural origin made it easy for humans to regard them as gods.

The Giants – Part 1

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Proverbs 9:18 But he knows not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. 

“Dead’ [Hebrew: rapha’] Rephaim, a proper name of one of the races of the giants, identifies the wickedness of the giants as sexual sins (Gen. 6:1-4). The fact that giants have lived on earth is clearly stated in Scripture. The Hebrew word nephil means “giant” or “tyrant” (Gen. 6:4; Num. 13:33). The men of Israel were grasshoppers compared to them (Num. 13:33). The Hebrew word gibbowr is also translated as “giant,” meaning powerful, giant, mighty, or strong man (Job 16:14).

The Anakims were a great and tall people (Deut. 1:28; 2:10-11, 21; 9:2; Jos. 11:21-22; 14:12-14). Anak himself was a giant (Num. 13:33). If all Anakims were as big, we can be assured other giants were also. The land of Ammon was “a land of giants,” for “giants dwelt therein in old time” (Deut. 2:19-20). The Emims were also “great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims” (Deut. 2:10-11). The same was said of the Zamzummims who formerly inhabited the land of Ammon (Deut. 2:19-21). Og, king of Bashan, is described as a giant whose iron bedstead was thirteen and a half feet long, and six feet wide. This is not a measurement of wickedness, but of a material bed for a giant body measuring nearly thirteen feet tall (Deut. 3:11; Jos. 12:4; 13:12). Bashan is called “the land of the giants” (Deut. 3:13).

A “valley of the giants” is mentioned in Joshua 15:8; 18:16. This is the valley of Rephaim, the name of another branch of the giant races mentioned in Scripture (Gen. 14:5; 15:20; 2Sam. 5:18, 22; 23:13; 1Chr. 11:15; 14:9; Isa. 17:5). The Rephaims were well-known giants, but unfortunately, instead of retaining their proper name in Scripture, the translators used dead (Job 26:5; Ps. 88:10; Pro. 2:18; 9:18; 21:16; Isa. 14:8; 26:19); and deceased (Isa. 26:14). It should have been a proper name in all these places, as it is ten times otherwise.

To be continued…