Genesis 6:4

World English Bible (2000)

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

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  • Num 13:33 : 33 There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight."
  • Deut 2:20-21 : 20 (That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim lived therein before; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim, 21 a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place;
  • Deut 3:11 : 11 (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; isn't it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, after the cubit of a man.)
  • 2 Sam 21:15-22 : 15 The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint; 16 and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred [shekels] of brass in weight, he being armed with a new [sword], thought to have slain David. 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, "You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you don't quench the lamp of Israel." 18 It came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was of the sons of the giant. 19 There was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite's brother, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. 20 There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant. 21 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, killed him. 22 These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
  • 1 Sam 17:4 : 4 There went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 6:1-3
    3 verses
    84%

    1 It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

    2 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

    3 Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

  • 5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

  • 4 The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

  • Gen 6:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

    12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

  • 4 This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

  • 33 There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight."

  • 31 The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.

  • 26 As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man.

  • 19 Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

  • Deut 2:20-21
    2 verses
    68%

    20 (That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim lived therein before; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

    21 a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place;

  • 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

  • Deut 2:10-11
    2 verses
    68%

    10 (The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:

    11 these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.

  • 6 Now it happened on the day when God's sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan also came among them.

  • 37 "As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

  • 22 Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

  • 6 and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

  • 4 and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

  • 12 The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

  • 26 Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

  • 32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

  • 8 Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.

  • 6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

  • 3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,