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The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God`s sons came to men`s daughters. They bore children to them: the same were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
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Nephilim vs. Mighty Men
Scholars clarify that this verse describes two distinct groups. The "Nephilim" were violent tyrants already on the earth. Then, when the godly line of Seth ("sons of God") intermarried with ungodly women, their children became the "mighty men... of renown." This second group, born from compromised faith, were famous warriors who imitated the Nephilim's wickedness.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
19th Century
Anglican
Giants. —Heb., Nephilim, mentioned again in Numbers 13:33, and apparently a race of great physical strength and stature. …
16th Century
Protestant
There were giants in the earth. Among the innumerable kinds of corruptions with which the earth was filled, Moses especially records one h…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
There were giants in the earth in those days That is, in the days before the sons of God took the daughters of men f…
The most remarkable thing about the old world is its destruction by the deluge, or flood. We are told of the abounding iniquity of that wicked worl…