The mention of the giant offspring of the fallen ones is found in the Bible. The following scriptures are provided as a reference with limited comment.  The Anak, Anakim, Nephilim, Emim, Rephaim, Zamzummim,

Going up by way of the Negeb, they reached Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, descendants of the Anakim, were living. (Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Numbers 13:22 (NAB)

However, the people who are living in the land are fierce, and the towns are fortified and very strong. Besides, we saw descendants of the Anakim there.

Amalekites live in the region of the Negeb; Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites dwell in the highlands, and Canaanites along the seacoast and the banks of the Jordan."

Caleb, however, to quiet the people toward Moses, said, "We ought to go up and seize the land, for we can certainly do so."

But the men who had gone up with him said, "We cannot attack these people; they are too strong for us."

So they spread discouraging reports among the Israelites about the land they had scouted, saying, "The land that we explored is a country that consumes its inhabitants. And all the people we saw there are huge men,

veritable giants (the Anakim were a race of giants); we felt like mere grasshoppers, and so we must have seemed to them."

Numbers 13:28-33 (NAB)

you set to murmuring in your tents, ‘Out of hatred for us the LORD has brought us up out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites and destroy us.

What shall we meet with up there? Our kinsmen have made us fainthearted by reporting that the people are stronger and taller than we, and their cities are large and fortified to the sky; besides, they saw the Anakim there.’

"But I said to you, ‘Have no dread or fear of them.

The LORD, your God, who goes before you, will himself fight for you, just as he took your part before your very eyes in Egypt,

as well as in the desert, where you saw how the LORD, your God, carried you, as a man carries his child, all along your journey until you arrived at this place.’

Deuteronomy 1:27-31 (NAB)

And the LORD said to me, ‘Do not show hostility to the Moabites or engage them in battle, for I will not give you possession of any of their land, since I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their own.

(Formerly the Emim lived there, a people strong and numerous and tall like the Anakim;

like them they were considered Rephaim. It was the Moabites who called them Emim.

Deuteronomy 2:9-11 (NAB)

As you come opposite the Ammonites, do not show hostility or come in conflict with them, for I will not give you possession of any land of the Ammonites, since I have given it to the descendants of Lot as their own.

(This also was considered a country of the Rephaim from its former inhabitants, whom the Ammonites called Zamzummim,

a people strong and numerous and tall like the Anakim. But these, too, the LORD cleared out of the way for the Ammonites, who ousted them and took their place.

Deuteronomy 2:19-21 (NAB)

(Og, king of Bashan, was the last remaining survivor of the Rephaim. He had a bed of iron, nine regular cubits long and four wide, which is still preserved in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

"When we occupied the land at that time, I gave Reuben and Gad the territory from Aroer, on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, halfway up into the highlands of Gilead, with the cities therein.

The rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, the whole Argob region, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (All this region of Bashan was once called a land of the Rephaim.

Deuteronomy 3:11-13 (NAB)

"Hear, O Israel! You are now about to cross the Jordan to enter in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than yourselves, having large cities fortified to the sky,

the Anakim, a people great and tall. You know of them and have heard it said of them, ‘Who can stand up against the Anakim?’

Understand, then, today that it is the LORD, your God, who will cross over before you as a consuming fire; he it is who will reduce them to nothing and subdue them before you, so that you can drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the LORD promised you.

After the LORD, your God, has thrust them out of your way, do not say to yourselves, ‘It is because of my merits that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land’; for it is really because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you.

Deuteronomy 9:1-4 (NAB)

At that time Joshua penetrated the mountain regions and exterminated the Anakim in Hebron, Debir, Anab, the entire mountain region of Judah, and the entire mountain region of Israel. Joshua fulfilled the doom on them and on their cities,

so that no Anakim were left in the land of the Israelites. However, some survived in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod.

Thus Joshua captured the whole country, just as the LORD had foretold to Moses. Joshua gave it to Israel as their heritage, apportioning it among the tribes. And the land enjoyed peace.

Joshua 11:21-23 (NAB)

Secondly, Og, king of Bashan, a survivor of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and Edrei.

He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, and all Bashan as far as the boundary of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and over half of Gilead as far as the territory of Sihon, king of Heshbon.

Joshua 12:4-5 (NAB)

11 also Gilead and the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah,

12 the entire kingdom in Bashan of Og, a survivor of the Rephaim, who reigned at Ashtaroth and Edrei. Though Moses conquered and occupied these territories,

Joshua 13:11-12 (NAB)

I am still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me forth, with no less vigor whether for war or for ordinary tasks.

Give me, therefore, this mountain region which the LORD promised me that day, as you yourself heard. True, the Anakim are there, with large fortified cities, but if the LORD is with me I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD promised."

Joshua blessed Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and gave him Hebron as his heritage.

Therefore Hebron remains the heritage of the Kenizzite Caleb, son of Jephunneh, to the present day, because he was completely loyal to the LORD, the God of Israel.

Hebron was formerly called Kiriath-arba, for Arba, the greatest among the Anakim. And the land enjoyed peace.

Joshua 14:11-15 (NAB)

As the LORD had commanded, Joshua gave Caleb, son of Jephunneh, a portion among the Judahites, namely, Kiriath-arba (Arba was the father of Anak), that is, Hebron.

And Caleb drove out from there the three Anakim, the descendants of Anak: Sheshai, Ahiman and Talmai.

Joshua 15:13-14 (NAB)

Climbing again to the Valley of Ben-hinnom on the southern flank of the Jebusites (that is, Jerusalem), the boundary rose to the top of the mountain at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim, which bounds the Valley of Hinnom on the west.

Joshua 15:8 (NAB)

Joshua answered them, "If you are too many, go up to the forest and clear out a place for yourselves there in the land of the Perizzites and Rephaim, since the mountain regions of Ephraim are so narrow."

Joshua 17:15 (NAB)

It went down to the edge of the mountain on the north of the Valley of Rephaim, where it faces the Valley of Ben-hinnom; and continuing down the Valley of Hinnom along the southern flank of the Jebusites, reached En-rogel.

Joshua 18:16 (NAB)

From the tribes of the Judahites and Simeonites they designated the following cities,

and assigned them to the descendants of Aaron in the Kohathite clan of the Levites, since the first lot fell to them:

first, Kiriath-arba (Arba was the father of Anak), that is, Hebron, in the mountain region of Judah, with the adjacent pasture lands,

Joshua 21:9-11 (NAB)

As Moses had commanded, Hebron was given to Caleb, who then drove from it the three sons of Anak.

Judges 1:20 (NAB)

And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders. And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.

I Samuel 17:4-7 (KJV)

And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them.

I Samuel 17:23  (KJV)

And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.

I Samuel 21:9  (KJV)

And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.

I Samuel 22:10  (KJV)

The Philistines came and overran the valley of Rephaim.

David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I attack the Philistines—will you deliver them into my grip?" The LORD replied to David, "Attack, for I will surely deliver the Philistines into your grip."

David then went to Baal-perazim, where he defeated them. He said, "The LORD has scattered my enemies before me like waters that have broken free." That is why the place is called Baal-perazim.

They abandoned their gods there, and David and his men carried them away.

But the Philistines came up again and overran the valley of Rephaim.

II Samuel 5:18-22 (NAB)

Dadu, one of the Rephaim, whose bronze spear weighed three hundred shekels, was about to take him captive. Dadu was girt with a new sword and planned to kill David,

but Abishai, son of Zeruiah, came to his assistance and struck and killed the Philistine. Then David’s men swore to him, "You must not go out to battle with us again, lest you quench the lamp of Israel."

After this there was another battle with the Philistines in Gob. On that occasion Sibbecai, from Husha, killed Saph, one of the Rephaim.

There was another battle with the Philistines in Gob, in which Elhanan, son of Jair from Bethlehem, killed Goliath of Gath, who had a spear with a shaft like a weaver’s heddle-bar.

There was another battle at Gath in which there was a man of large stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He too was one of the Rephaim.

And when he insulted Israel, Jonathan, son of David’s brother Shimei, killed him.

These four were Rephaim in Gath, and they fell at the hands of David and his servants.

II Samuel 21:16-22 (NAB)

During the harvest three of the Thirty went down to David in the cave of Adullam, while a Philistine clan was encamped in the Vale of Rephaim.

II Samuel 23:13 (NAB)

Three of the Thirty chiefs went down to the rock, to David, who was in the cave of Adullam while the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

I Chronicles 11:15 (NAB)

Meanwhile the Philistines had come and raided the valley of Rephaim.

I Chronicles 14:9 (NAB)

And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, that was of the children of the giant: and they were subdued. And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver’s beam. And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot: and he also was the son of the giant. But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s brother slew him. These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

I Chronicles 20:4-8 (KJV)

Like the reaper’s mere armful of stalks

when he gathers the standing grain;

Or as when one gleans the ears

in the Valley of Rephaim.

Isaiah 17:5 (NAB)

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