Giants_in_the_Bible

GIANTS IN THE BIBLE
PROF. M. M. NINAN
The Amorite name means literally "the high one" and may refer to one (or more) of three possibilities:
the mountainous terrain of the land they occupied (Num. 13:29; Deut. 1:7,19-20);
their fearsome military prowess (Deut. 1:44); or
their great stature (Num. 13:33).
Here we see how the Giant genes escaped and entered into the post-deluge world.
somehow had the genes in him.
Canaan
While the Amorites are mentioned in the same contexts as other giants a few times, they are
specifically described as giants in the Minor Prophets.
“Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars,
and he was as strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath. Also it was I
who brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess
the land of the Amorite” (Amos 2:9–10).
The idea that the Amorites were giants is supported by the report of the spies whom Moses sent
through the land of Canaan. The Amorites were one of the people groups they saw (Numbers 13:29),
and they claimed that “all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature” (Numbers 13:32). It
is telling that in their response, Joshua and Caleb did not challenge the size of the land’s inhabitants
(Numbers 14:6–9).
The term Amorites is used in the Bible to refer to certain highland mountaineers who inhabited the land
of Canaan, described in Genesis 10:16 as descendants of Canaan, the son of Ham. They are
described as a powerful people of great stature "like the height of
the cedars" (Amos 2:9) who had occupied the land east and west
of the Jordan. The height and strength mentioned in Amos 2:9 has
led some Christian scholars, including Orville J. Nave, who wrote
the classic Nave's Topical Bible, to refer to the Amorites as
"giants".
Hammurabi was an Amorite First Dynasty king of the city-state of
Babylon, and inherited the power from his father, Sin-Muballit, in c.
1792 BC. Hammurabi[a] (c. 1810 BC – c. 1750 BC) is best
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