Genesis 6:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

There were gyants in the earth in those dayes: yea, and after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of men, and they had borne them children, these were mightie men, which in olde time were men of renoume.

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  • Num 13:33 : 33 (13:34) For there we sawe gyants, the sonnes of Anak, which come of the gyants, so that we seemed in our sight like grashoppers: and so wee were in their sight.
  • Deut 2:20-21 : 20 That also was taken for a land of gyants: for gyants dwelt therein afore time, whome the Ammonites called Zamzummims: 21 A people that was great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims: but the Lord destroyed them before them, and they succeeded them in their inheritance, and dwelt in their stead:
  • Deut 3:11 : 11 For onely Og King of Bashan remained of the remnant of the gyants, whose bed was a bed of yron: is it not at Rabbath among the children of Ammon? The length thereof is nine cubites, and foure cubites the breadth of it, after the cubite of a man.
  • 2 Sam 21:15-22 : 15 Againe the Philistims had warre with Israel: and Dauid went downe, and his seruants with him, and they fought against the Philistims, and Dauid fainted. 16 Then Ishi-benob which was of the sonnes of Haraphah (the head of whose speare wayed three hundreth shekels of brasse) euen he being girded with a newe sword, thought to haue slaine Dauid. 17 But Abishai the sonne of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistim, and killed him. Then Dauids men sware vnto him, saying, Thou shalt goe no more out with vs to battell, lest thou quench the light of Israel. 18 And after this also there was a battell with the Philistims at Gob, then Sibbechai the Hushathite slewe Saph, which was one of ye sonnes of Haraphah. 19 And there was yet another battel in Gob with the Philistims, where Elhanah the sonne of Iaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite slewe Goliath the Gittite: the staffe of whose speare was like a weauers beame. 20 Afterward there was also a battel in Gath, where was a man of a great stature, and had on euerie hand sixe fingers, and on euerie foote sixe toes, foure and twentie in nomber: who was also the sonne of Haraphah. 21 And when hee reuiled Israel, Ionathan the sonne of Shima the brother of Dauid slewe him. 22 These foure were borne to Haraphah in Gath, and died by the hande of Dauid and by the hands of his seruants.
  • 1 Sam 17:4 : 4 Then came a man betweene them both out of the tents of the Philistims, named Goliath of Gath: his height was sixe cubites and an hande breadth,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 6:1-3
    3 verses
    84%

    1So when men beganne to be multiplied vpon the earth, and there were daughters borne vnto them,

    2Then the sonnes of God sawe the daughters of men that they were faire, & they tooke them wiues of all that they liked.

    3Therefore the Lord saide, My Spirit shall not alway striue with man, because he is but flesh, and his dayes shalbe an hundreth & twentie yeeres.

  • 5When the Lorde sawe that the wickednesse of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughtes of his heart were onely euill continually,

  • 4And the dayes of Adam, after he had begotten Sheth, were eight hundreth yeeres, and he begate sonnes and daughters.

  • Gen 6:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11The earth also was corrupt before God: for the earth was filled with crueltie.

    12Then God looked vpon the earth, and beholde, it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupt his way vpon the earth.

  • 4These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lorde God made the earth and the heauens,

  • 33(13:34) For there we sawe gyants, the sonnes of Anak, which come of the gyants, so that we seemed in our sight like grashoppers: and so wee were in their sight.

  • 31And the elder saide vnto the yonger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth, to come in vnto vs after the maner of all ye earth.

  • 26And as it was in the dayes of Noe, so shall it be in the dayes of the Sonne of man.

  • 19Then Iered liued, after he begate Henoch, eight hundreth yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

  • Deut 2:20-21
    2 verses
    68%

    20That also was taken for a land of gyants: for gyants dwelt therein afore time, whome the Ammonites called Zamzummims:

    21A people that was great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims: but the Lord destroyed them before them, and they succeeded them in their inheritance, and dwelt in their stead:

  • 6And Noah was sixe hundreth yeeres olde, when the flood of waters was vpon the earth.

  • Deut 2:10-11
    2 verses
    68%

    10The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great and many, & tall, as the Anakims.

    11They also were taken for gyants as the Anakims: whom the Moabites call Emims.

  • 6Nowe on a day when the children of God came and stoode before the Lorde, Satan came also among them.

  • 37But as the dayes of Noe were, so likewise shall the coming of the Sonne of man be.

  • 22And Henoch walked with God, after he begate Methushelah, three hundreth yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

  • 6And they tooke their daughters to bee their wiues, and gaue their daughters to their sonnes, and serued their gods.

  • 4They conquered also the coast of Og King of Bashan of the remnant of the gyants, which dwelt at Ashtaroth, and at Edrei,

  • 12And the raine was vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes.

  • 26And Methushelah liued, after he begate Lamech, seuen hundreth eightie and two yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

  • 32These are the families of the sonnes of Noah, after their generations among their people: and out of these were the nations diuided in the earth after the flood.

  • 8And Cush begate Nimrod, who began to be mightie in the earth.

  • 6Wherefore the worlde that then was, perished, ouerflowed with the water.

  • 3Henoch, Methushelah, Lamech,