Nephilim

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

Now on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan also came among them.

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

(For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, after the cubit of a man.)

For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day. — read the full passage →

Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!” — read the full passage →

There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →

(The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim.

But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.” — read the full passage →

Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. — read the full passage →

The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →

and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being armed with a new sword, thought to have slain David.

These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

Again, on the day when the God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

He answered, Look, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are unharmed; and the aspect of the fourth is like a son of the gods.

Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. The land had rest from war.

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness. — read the full passage →

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (the same was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses attacked these, and drove them out.

It came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

(That also is considered a land of Rephaim: Rephaim lived there before; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim, — read the full passage →

the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature. — read the full passage →

In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

They shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.” — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle; and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim. — read the full passage →

“Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them.”

The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint; — read the full passage →

There went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →

a great people, many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place;

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

There were none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain.

About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,

They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”

They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.

(The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim. — read the full passage →

Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.

There was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite’s brother, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not cling to one another, even as iron does not mingle with clay.

They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were twenty-four, six on each hand, and six on each foot; and he also was born to the giant.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. — read the full passage →

God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods. — read the full passage →

But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”

Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood. — read the full passage →

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.

Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, — read the full passage →

There was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

When you come near the border of the children of Ammon, don’t bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.” — read the full passage →

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. — read the full passage →

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw: — read the full passage →

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

Again, on the day when the God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh. — read the full passage →

God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided. — read the full passage →