Did giants really exist?
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'So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature. 33We even saw the Nephilim there— the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”
If this is literal, then the giants were enormous, and possibly cannibals? Even the grapes were huge Numb 13:23.
If this is literal, then the giants were enormous, and possibly cannibals? Even the grapes were huge Numb 13:23.
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ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE:
Genesis 6:4 - 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.
Genesis 6:1-22 - And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, (Read More...)
Numbers 13:33 - And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Deuteronomy 1:28 - Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
1 Samuel 17:1-58 - Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim. (Read More...)
Jude 1:6 - And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Genesis 6:1-4 - And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, (Read More...)
Deuteronomy 3:11 - For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
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:
Deuteronomy 2:11 - Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
2 Samuel 21:18 - And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.
Deuteronomy 2:10 - The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
Psalms 3:6 - I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
Genesis 6:4 - 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.
Genesis 6:1-22 - And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, (Read More...)
Numbers 13:33 - And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Deuteronomy 1:28 - Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
1 Samuel 17:1-58 - Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim. (Read More...)
Jude 1:6 - And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Genesis 6:1-4 - And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, (Read More...)
Deuteronomy 3:11 - For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
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:
Deuteronomy 2:11 - Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
2 Samuel 21:18 - And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.
Deuteronomy 2:10 - The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
Psalms 3:6 - I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
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! Samuel 17 is the one description that always impressed upon me that they meant Giant. If you look at the description Samuel wrote of the armor Goliath has his coat of mail (5 thousand shekels)+ his spearhead(600 shekels) Goliath is described as standing there with 1195.29 pounds of armor and weapons in his hands and on his body. https://biblehub.com/interlinear/1_samuel/17.htm
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lol, or maybe I did my math in pounds instead of grams?(first time I thought to convert it) and so then doing it another way the spearhead is 16 pounds 11 oz, and the armor is 125 pounds so 141 pounds 11oz but does it include his helmet,shin guards ect.? https://www.goliathsspear.com/shekel
I wasn't going to post anymore in the thread(it was becoming inactive) but I noticed you marked my post as informative on my alerts..
I made a mistake in my post in that when I calculated the weight of the spearhead and coat of mail I used charts that converted shekels/pounds(money) without realizing it as showing value of money(shekel vrs. English pound) and not shekel weight vrs bronze/iron weight in pounds/oz.
In threads like these(giants) there seems to be a vacuum of silence of sorts. It's because I think that a good many have researched i Samuel 17 and realize that LXX, Dead sea Scrolls, Masoretic ect. and others all have different sizes(cubits) in the different interpretations. One has four cubits and a span another says six cubits and a span other later manuscripts seem to split the issue and say five cubits and a span. There's a lot of debate as to why this happened some say it was an intentional change others think the scribes believed otherwise based on how they were taught and so believed they were correcting a previous error made by another interpreter.
That said though the cubit/span information wont ever resolve the issue(one will choose the text that agrees with their position and disregard the others)... What catches my eye and I was trying to show is that although the cubit/span is different in each set of manuscripts the "weight value" of the coat of mail and the spear head is consistent. So if looking at the armor that an Egyptian,Israelite,Greek ect. would have worn in the bronze age and finding it's average weight then there would something to compare the weight of armor given in 1 Samuel 17 worn by Goliath. Each soldiers body armor was custom fitted to their body mass/size hence David could not move around in Saul's armor(too large too much weight) so he took it off. Anyway on average a bronze age warrior would have worn between 50-75 pounds of armor(smaller man's would be lighter/smaller and a larger mans larger and so weigh more) and so if the coat of mail(approx 125-150 lbs) and spearhead(approx 16lbs) were custom fitted to Goliath he is approx 2 to 3 times the weight size body mass of most other soldiers so approx. 10-12 feet tall approx 600lbs.. maybe a better machination could be more accurate than me by taking the average armor weight/average weight of a man and calculating the size of a man that would wear a 125 pound coat of mail in battle. In Deuteronomy,Numbers Og is described very similar in size(9-13 foot tall) and so to me(imo) based on the weight of Goliath's armor he was about the same size as Og. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Og
Every single one!
Forget the men. All the men have left you to fend for yourself against the skyscraper sized giants. If the book of Eli were not true then why would there even be a football team named after them?
The New York Nephilim!
If that doesn't prove the Book of Eli to be true, then Nothing will.
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Forget the men. All the men have left you to fend for yourself against the skyscraper sized giants. If the book of Eli were not true then why would there even be a football team named after them?
The New York Nephilim!
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