Gen 6:4-5, 10:8-9, 1Sa 21:7 | ESV | STEP | 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 .

c ch. 8:21; Job 14:4; 15:14; Ps. 51:5; Jer. 17:9; Matt. 15:19; Rom. 3:23

Genesis 6:4-5

4 The Nephilim ^{▼▼Or giants} 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.

5 ^bThe Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every ^cintention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 10:8-9

8 Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man. ^{▼▼Or he began to be a mighty man on the earth} 9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.”

1 Samuel 21:7

7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord. His name was ^eDoeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul’s herdsmen.