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2 Samuel 21:16

Good News Translation (US Version)

A giant named Ishbibenob, who was carrying a bronze spear that weighed about seven and a half pounds and who was wearing a new sword, thought he could kill David.

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Then there was another battle at Gath, where there was a giant who loved to fight. He had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot.

After this there was a battle with the Philistines at Gob, during which Sibbecai from Hushah killed a giant named Saph.

These four were descendants of the giants of Gath, and they were killed by David and his men.

The Philistines arrived at Rephaim Valley and occupied it.

The people themselves are tall and strong; they are giants, and you have heard it said that no one can stand against them.

King Og was the last of the Rephaim. His coffin, made of stone, was six feet wide and almost fourteen feet long, according to standard measurements. It can still be seen in the Ammonite city of Rabbah.)

They were as tall as the Anakim. There were many of them, and they were a mighty race. But the Lord destroyed them, so that the Ammonites took over their land and settled there.

A mighty race of giants called the Emim used to live in Ar. They were as tall as the Anakim, another race of giants.

Why should we go there? We are afraid. The men we sent tell us that the people there are stronger and taller than we are, and that they live in cities with walls that reach the sky. They saw giants there!’

In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and his allies came with their armies and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in the plain of Kiriathaim,

In those days, and even later, there were giants on the earth who were descendants of human women and the heavenly beings. They were the great heroes and famous men of long ago.

They went first into the southern part of the land and came to Hebron, where the clans of Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of a race of giants called the Anakim, lived. (Hebron was founded seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

But the people who live there are powerful, and their cities are very large and well fortified. Even worse, we saw the descendants of the giants there.

Caleb drove the descendants of Anak out of the city—the clans of Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

Like the Anakim they were also known as Rephaim; but the Moabites called them Emim.

None of the Anakim were left in the land of Israel; a few, however, were left in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.

His spear was as thick as the bar on a weaver's loom, and its iron head weighed about fifteen pounds. A soldier walked in front of him carrying his shield.




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