Archaeological Evidence for Giants in the Bible?

[The Librarian]

 

 

 

[Arauna]

Interesting that the archeologists give such exorbitant laboratory dates (wrong dating for sure!), when most honest scholars know that the bronze age was just before the iron age.  It is in the bronze age (just before the iron) that these Giants in neighboring areas to Israel where living.  

There were very tall nations such as the Philistines, Anakin and the Rephaim. They could even have been related. Jehovah promised the territory of the Rephaim to the descendants of Abraham.—Ge 15:18-20. Read in the Insight book where they originally lived and were displaced.

When David was fighting the Philistines, he and his servants struck down four men “born to the Rephaim in Gath.” One of them was described as “a man of extraordinary size whose fingers and toes were in sixes, twenty-four.” The description of their armor indicates that they were all men of great stature. One of these was “Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite.” read 1 Cron 20: 4-8 (interesting).   

Personal note: When one has a nation who all are exceptionally large and heavy, one would find that there would be some larger exceptions amongst them as well (especially when the same blood is perpetuated for 4 generations all of them would be tall and when one finds genetic defects such as the six fingers and toes then one know you are dealing with exceptional genetic heritage.)  Today we know this, so there is no doubt that their mere height and size would have put fear in the heart of a normal man - even if their fighting ability was not exceptional in man to man combat.  With the help of Jehovah they subdued these tall and strong peoples.

Most of these nations were warlike, so Goliath was chosen above the others (above his large fleshly brother who may have been a mercenary Gittite to Gath, the philistines). It seems there were 2 Goliaths - a title given to the role of the main warrior. (There is a scripture which does not read right - one needs to study al the linked scriptures to understand what happened)  There were many of these large persons. Goliath was one of the Rephaim; he may have been a mercenary soldier with the Philistine army.—1Ch 20:5, 8;

When the 12 spies of Israel went into the area of Hebron , they saw the Anakim. They alleged that they were descendants of the Nephilim. Note:  I see many people on internet are now taking up with the book of Enoch and reject the bible, except for these verses about the Nephilim.  They are practicing what I deem - worship of the demons.  They uphold the idea that there are demon-offspring still on earth..........  which we know as a fact , were all annihilated during the flood.  All angels had to return to heaven as their human bodies could to protect them from the flood and their offspring, the Nephilim, also died.  Jehovah thoroughly cleansed the earth.  But it shows the level of superstition  still on earth at the time when Israel returned to take the land which Jehovah had promised to Abraham. 

"Joshua devoted them and their cities to destruction 22 There were no Anʹa·kim left in the land of the Israelites; they remained only in Gazʹa, in Gath, and in Ashʹdod.  Later Caleb had to fight them in this same city of Hebron again as it seems the Anakin re-established themselves there.  While Israel was fighting elsewhere they did not establish garrisons in Hebron - which opened the way for Anakim  to return.

Read under Hebron in the Insight book to get the history of Hebron, a city where Abraham lived and later,  through conquest, belonged to Israel.  The fertile soil and produce is described there.