Giant skeletons found7/25/2023 ![]() ![]() But the huge copper spear heads were the most striking. The axe heads were identified as being identical to those found at Tell es-Safi (Gath). That’s over 15 pounds of metal at the end of the spear! A hoard of copper tools and weapons was discovered buried at Kfar Monash in Israel. The Bible informs us that Goliath wielded a massive spear, “And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron:” (I Samuel 17:7). By contrast, King Saul was “from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people” (I Samuel 9:2). The most popular Anakim giant was Goliath, who stood 10 ft tall (I Samuel 17:4). Their descendants entered the land and conquered these giants (the Anakim). They reported a race of giants that made them feel like mere grasshoppers. This giant, the last of the Rephaim clan, was probably about 12 ft tall! In Numbers 13:28-33 the Israelite spies investigated the land of Canaan in preparation for an invasion. It was 9 cubits by 4 cubits (approximately 14 ft long by 6 ft wide). ![]() Deuteronomy 3:11 tells about the bed of the Giant Og, King of Bashan. We note in post-Flood times that Deuteronomy 2 discusses multiple races of giants: Emims, Horims and Zamzummims. Moreover, it tells us that there were giants again after that time. But the Nephilim stood out amongst their peers even in those days. ![]() Genesis 6:4 states: “There were giants in the earth in those days.” That was a time of giant organisms, a time when men lived for several centuries. Perhaps this was a skeleton of one of the pre-flood Nephilim. This giant would have stood about 14 ft tall (left). Blanco Fossil Museum, was commissioned to sculpt the human femur. At the site, an engineer measured a femur (the long leg bone) and reported in a newsletter that it measured to be 120 cm (47.24 in.). In the late 1950’s, during road construction in the Euphrates Valley of southeast Turkey, fossilized human remains were uncovered. ![]()
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