Noah Primeval (Chronicles of the Nephilim Book 1)

by Brian Godawa

They are enemy spies, Noah thought, scouts for the city gods, gathering information on the last of the human tribes evading the conquering will of their Lords. We may have started the day hunting for food, but these things are no food for us. We must destroy them.

He yearned for freedom. Why can we not be left alone to live our lives? Why must we fight evil all the time? In

Bureaucracy always courted ambition and rivalry.

“I will not bow the knee,”

Noah realized a truth about human society: not everyone wanted freedom. When a people willingly or unwillingly become wards of their rulers, they eventually lose their capacity for self-determination. Like helpless children, they actually prefer security in exchange for their freedom. Better the misery they know while being taken care of than the misery they do not know being freely accountable for their own actions. Noah pitied them. They had lost their souls.

“But unlike a just prosecutor of crimes, the Nachash was a liar and murderer from the beginning. He was the father of lies, the tempter and deceiver of God’s people. He seeks to use God’s lawfulness against him.”

Strange hybrid creatures inhabited this anti-Eden: an obese woman with the head of a cow, another with reptilian skin, a dwarf with a tail and hooves, a deathly thin giantess with spindly arms and legs. There were dog-headed and pig-headed women. There were even woman-headed dogs and pigs. The violation of the created

order had spread so deep, the judgment of God could not be closer.

I will fundamentally transform humankind. I will create man in my image rather than in Elohim’s image. I will give man his proper destiny. I will make man into a god.”

As it turns out, the Anakim were not the only giants in the land. Evidently the land in and around Canaan was crawling with giants that were called by different names in different locations, such as the Emim, Rephaim, Zamzummim, Horim, Avvim and possibly Caphtorim: Deut. 2:10-11, 20-23 (The Emim formerly lived there, a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim. Like the Anakim they are also counted as Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim… (It is also counted as a land of Rephaim. Rephaim formerly lived there—but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim— a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them before the Ammonites, and they dispossessed them and settled in their place as he did for the people of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites before them and they dispossessed them and settled in their place even to this day. As for the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and settled in their place.)

King Og of Bashan is described as one of the last of “the remnant of the Rephaim” whose bed was over 13 feet long and made of iron (Deut. 3:11). That is no kingly bed alone; that was a large strong iron bed to hold a giant.

6:4. This word gibborim is used extensively throughout the Old Testament of warriors such as David’s “mighty men” (2 Sam. 16:6) and even of the giant Goliath (1Sam. 17:51) and many others.[50] The Nephilim were mighty warriors. The Rephaim were mighty warrior kings. In the Bible, Rephaim were Anakim giants, descendants of the Nephilim (Deut. 2:11; Num. 13:33), who were so significant they even had a valley named after them (“Valley of the Rephaim,” Josh. 15:8). But there is more to the Rephaim than that. Og, king of Bashan, was a Rephaim giant, and all his portion of the land of Bashan was called “the land of the Rephaim” (Deut. 3:13), an ambiguous wording that could equally be translated as “the ‘hell’ of the Rephaim.”[51] Bashan was a deeply significant spiritual location to the Canaanites and the Hebrews. And as the Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible puts it, Biblical geographical tradition agrees with the mythological and cultic data of the Canaanites of Ugarit that “the Bashan region, or a part of it, clearly represented ‘Hell’, the celestial and infernal abode of their deified dead kings,” the Rephaim.[52]

List of Giants The Bible reveals that there are many different clans that either were giants or had giants among them that were ultimately related in a line all the way back to the Nephilim of Genesis: Nephilim (Gen. 6:1-4; Num. 13:33) Anakim (Num. 13:28-33; Deut. 1:28; 2:10-11, 21; 9:2; Josh. 14:12) Amorites (Amos 2:9-10) Emim (Deut. 2:10-11) Rephaim (Deut. 2:10-11, 20; 3:11) Zamzummim (Deut. 2:20) Zuzim (Gen. 14:5) Perizzites (Gen. 15:20; Josh. 17:15) Philistines (2 Sam. 21:18-22) Horites/Horim (Deut. 2:21-22) Avvim (Deut. 2:23) Caphtorim (Deut. 2:23)

Amalekites Hittites Jebusites—The word means “Those who trample” Amorites (Amos 2:9-10 links the Amorites as giant in size and strength) Hivites (Has the same consonants as a Hebrew name for snake)

Here were the towns, cities or locations that were said to have had giants in them: Gob (2 Sam. 21:18) Hebron/Kiriath-arba (Num. 13:22; Josh. 14:15) Ar (Deut. 2:9) Seir (Deut. 2:21-22) Debir/ Kiriath-sepher (Josh. 11:21-22) Anab (Josh. 11:21-22) Gaza (Josh. 11:21-22) Gath (Josh. 11:21-22) Ashdod (Josh. 11:21-22) Bashan (Deut. 3:10-11) Ashteroth-karnaim (Gen. 14:5) Ham (Gen. 14:5) Shaveh-kiriathaim (Gen. 14:5) Valley of the Rephaim (Josh. 15:8) Moab (1 Chron. 11:22)

Many significant individuals are described in the Bible implicitly or explicitly as giants being struck down in war against Israel: Goliath (1 Sam. 17) Lahmi, Goliath’s brother (1 Chron. 20:5; 2 Sam. 21:19) Ishbi-benob (2 Sam. 21:16) Saph/Sippai (2 Sam. 21:17; 1 Chron. 20:4) Arba (Josh. 14:15)

Sheshai (Josh.15:14, Num. 13:22) Ahiman (Josh. 15:14, Num. 13:22) Talmai (Josh. 15:14, Num. 13:22) An unnamed warrior giant (1 Chron. 20:6) And unnamed Egyptian giant (1 Chron. 11:23) Og of Bashan (Deut. 3:10-11)

The ubiquitous presence of giants throughout the narrative of the Old Testament is no small matter. When God commanded the people of Israel to enter Canaan and devote certain of those peoples to complete destruction (Deut. 20:16-17), it is no coincidence that most of these peoples we have already seen were connected in some way to the Anakim giants, and Joshua’s campaign explicitly included the elimination of the Anakim/Sons of Anak giants. Could these giants that were from the lineage of the Nephilim (who were the offspring of the Sons of God) be the very Seed of the Serpent that would be at enmity with the promised messianic Seed of the Woman (Gen. 3:15)? You will have to read the sequels to Noah Primeval to find out.