Sub Ref for Nephi
Duetoronomy 20:10-17
When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it [if it belong not to the Canaanites].
And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take as prey unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that hath breath:
But thou shalt Outterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the
To the intent that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
The Nephilim, or "Giants" of Genesis 6, etc.
This Is Appendix 25 From The Companion Bible.
The progeny of the fallen angels with the daughters of Adam
(see notes on Genesis 6, and Appendix 23 are called in Genesis 6) Ne-phil´-im, which means fallen ones (from naphal, to fall).
What these beings were can be gathered only from Scripture. They were evidently great in size, as well as great in wickedness.
They were superhuman, abnormal beings; and their destruction was necessary for the preservation of the human race, and for the faithfulness of Jehovah's Word (Genesis 3:15).
This was why the Flood was brought "upon the world of the ungodly" (2Peter 2:5) as prophesied by Enoch (Jude 14).
"There were Nephilim in the earth in those days (that is to say, in the days of Noah); and also AFTER THAT, when the sons of God
came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became [the] mighty men (Hebrew gibbor, the heroes)
which were of old, men of renown" (literally, men of the name, that is to say, who got a name and were renowned for their ungodliness).
In chapter 15:18-21 they are enumerated and named among Canaanite Peoples:
"Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, and the Amorites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites"
(Genesis 15:19-21; compare Exodus 3:8,17; 23:23. Deuteronomy 7; 20:17. Joshua 12:8).
"The Sons of GOD" in Genesis 6:2,4. This Is Appendix 23 From The Companion Bible.
The nature of their sin is stated to be "in like manner" to that of the subsequent sins of Sodom and Gomorrha, Jude 7. Only Noah and his family had preserved their pedigree pure from Adam (Genesis 6:9 see note). All the rest had become "corrupt" (shachath) destroyed [as Adamites]. The only remedy was to destroy it (defacto), as it had become destroyed (de jure). (It is the same word in verse 17 as in verses 11,12.) See futher under Appendix 25 on the Nephilim.
This irruption of fallen angels was Satan's first attempt to prevent the coming of the Seed of the woman foretold in Genesis 3:15. If this could be accomplished, God's Word would have failed, and his own doom would be averted. As soon as it was made known that the Seed of the woman was to come through ABRAHAM, there must have been another irruption, as recorded in Genesis 6:4, "and also after that" (that is to say, after the days of Noah, more than 500 years after the first irruption). The aim of the enemy was to occupy Canaan in advance of Abraham, and so to contest its occupation by his seed. For, when Abraham entered Canaan, we read (Genesis 12:6) "the Canaanite was then (that is to say, already) in the land."
This great conflict may be seen throughout the Bible, and it forms a great and important subject of Biblical study.
In each case the human instrument had his own personal interest to serve, while Satan had his own great object in view.
Hence God had, in each case, to interfere and avert the evil and the danger, of which His servants and people were wholly ignorant.
The following assaults of the great Enemy stand out prominently:-
The destruction of the chosen family by famine, Genesis 50:20.
The destruction of the male line in Israel, Exodus 1:10,15, etc. Compare to Exodus 2:5. Hebrews 11:23.
The destruction of the whole nation in Pharaoh's pursuit, Exodus 14.
After David's line was singled out (2Samuel 7), that was the next selected for assault.
Satan's first assault was in the union of Jehoram and Athaliah by Jehoshaphat, notwithstanding 2Chronicles 17:1.
Jehoram killed off all his brothers (2Chronicles 21:4).
The Arabians slew all his children, except Ahaziah (2Chronicles 21:17; 22:1).
When Ahaziah died, Athaliah killed "all the seed royal" (2Chron 22:10, 23:3).
The babe Joash alone was rescued; and, for 6 years, the faithfulness of Jehovah's word was at stake.
Hezekiah was childless, when a double assault was made by the King of Assyria and the King of Terrors (Isaiah 36:1; 38:1). (Psalm 136).
In Captivity, Haman was used to attempt the destruction of the whole nation (Esther 3:6,12,13. Compare 6:1)
Joseph's fear was worked on (Mat 1:18-20). The fact that he was "a just man", and kept the Law, he did not wish to have Mary stoned to death (Deut 24:1); hence Joseph determined to divorce her. But God intervened: "Fear not". Herod sought the young Child's life (Matthew 2).
At the Temptation, "Cast Thyself down" was Satan's temptation.
At Nazareth, again (Luke 4), there was another attempt to cast Him down and destroy Him.
The two storms on the Lake were other attempts.
At length the cross was reached, and the sepulchre closed; the watch set; and the stone sealed. But "God raised Him from the dead."
The irruption of "the fallen angels" ("sons of God") was the first attempt; and was directed against the whole human race.
When Abraham was called, then he and his seed were attacked.
When David was enthroned, then the royal line was assailed.
And when "the Seed of the woman" Himself came, then the storm burst upon Him.
NOTES
1 The word "offspring" in Acts 17:28 is quite different. It is (genos), which means merely kin or kind, our genus as being originated by God.
2 In Hosea 1:10, it is not beni-ha-Elohim, as here, but beni-el-chai.
"The Sons of GOD" in Genesis 6:2,4. This Is Appendix 23 From The Companion Bible.
Arba was rebuilt by the Khabiri or confederates seven years before Zoan was built by Egyptian Pharoahs of the nineteenth dynasty. See note on Numbers 13:22.
[Note: Darius-Troy Thread Hebron _ Rammallah?]
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