Genesis 6:1-4 (NIV) tells us how giants came into existence before the flood, but how did they survive the flood?
“When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the LORD said, My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years. The Nephilim (Giants) were on the earth in those days—*and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
*One of Ham’s sons was Cush, who became the father of Nimrod. Another was Canaan who was the father of the Jebusite, Amorite, Girgasite, Hivite, and seven other “-ites” as the KJV says, “and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.”
“For mine Angel (see John 1:1) shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.” (Exodus 23:23 KJV)
Israel was to conquer “Canaan Land” which was permeated with giants. Israel looked like **grasshoppers to them when the 12 spies were spying out the land before Israel’s infiltration according to God’s instructions.
We know there were giants in the time of Joshua for sure because it is written in Numbers 13:30-35 (NIV)
Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it."
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are."
And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. We saw the Nephilim (giants) there. We seemed like **grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”
Who, pray tell, carried the gene of the giants’ bloodline on the ark?
I don’t think it was Ham, even though he showed himself as being quite nasty to his father Noah.