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GIANTS IN THE BIBLE PROF. M. M. NINAN These garments had a wonderful property. He who wore them was both invincible and irresistible. The beasts and birds of the woods fell down before Nimrod as soon as they caught sight of him arrayed in them, and he was equally victorious in his combats with men. The source of his unconquerable strength was not known to them. They attributed it to his personal prowess, and therefore they appointed him king over themselves" The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg (1909) It was in this area that Nimrod was born, and would eventually depart from there to Shinar to establish the following important “Middle Eastern” Biblical cities (Genesis 10:10): Babel, Erech, Accad, Calneh These places were located in Shinar, the area currently known as Iraq. Nimrod was often depicted as a mighty warrior, giant and possibly a hunter and subduer of giants as well. In fact, giants are even said to have helped him build the Tower of Babel. An Arabic manuscript found at Baalbek says: "After the flood, when Nimrod reigned over Lebanon, he sent giants to rebuild the fortress of Baalbek, which was so named in honour of Baal, the god of the Moabites and worshippers of the Sun." Josephus says Nimrod tried to ascribe success not by the power of God but my the power of human ingenuity. In this he was defying God. “Now it was Nimrod who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God. He was the grandson of Ham, the son of Noah, a bold man, and of great strength of hand. He persuaded them not 46
GIANTS IN THE BIBLE PROF. M. M. NINAN to ascribe it to God, as if it were through his means they were happy, but to believe that it was their own courage which procured that happiness. He also gradually changed the government into tyranny, seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence on his power. He also said he would be revenged on God, if he should have a mind to drown the world again; for that he would build a tower too high for the waters to reach. And that he would avenge himself on God for destroying their forefathers. Nimrod’s name means rebel. Apparently his rebellion was against YHVH for he believed that YHVH killed his forefathers in the flood. Therefore, Nimrod refused adherence to, and opposed by force, God’s righteous governing authority. So defiant of God was Nimrod that he built the city Babel and the great Tower of Babel. From this we see the pattern of secular humanism and the resulting tyranny of a dictatorial government. Israel. Nimrod Fortress National Park (Qal‘at Namrud) 47
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