Numbers 13:33
33And there we saw the aNephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the bNephilim), and we seemed to ourselves clike grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”Deuteronomy 2:20-21
20(It is also counted as a land of dRephaim. Rephaim formerly lived there—but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim— 21 ea people great and many, and tall as the Anakim; but the Lord destroyed them before the Ammonites, ▼▼Hebrew them
and they dispossessed them and settled in their place, Deuteronomy 3:11
11(For gonly Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of hthe Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in iRabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits ▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the kcommon cubit. ▼▼Hebrew cubit of a man
) 1 Samuel 17:4
4And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named mGoliath of nGath, whose height was six ▼▼Hebrew; Septuagint, Dead Sea Scroll and Josephus four
cubits ▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
and a span. 2 Samuel 21:15-22
War with the Philistines
15There was war again between the Philistines and Israel, and David went down together with his servants, and they fought against the Philistines. And David grew weary. 16And Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants qof the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels ▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
of bronze, and who was armed with a new sword, thought to kill David. 17But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him, s“You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench tthe lamp of Israel.” 18 uAfter this there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then vSibbecai wthe Hushathite struck down Saph, who was one of the descendants xof the giants. 19And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob, and yElhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite, struck down Goliath the Gittite, zthe shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam. ▼
▼Contrast 1 Chronicles 20:5, which may preserve the original reading
20And 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 abfrom the giants. 21And when ache taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, struck him down. 22These four were descended adfrom the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.
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