Here's another one:
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ReportIntendedtoTerrorize. The ten spies who brought back to the Israelites in the wilderness a false report on the land of Canaan declared: "All the people whom we saw in the midst of it are men of extraordinary size. And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who are from the Nephilim; so that we became in our own eyes like grasshoppers, and the same way we became in their eyes." No doubt there were some large men in Canaan, as other scriptures show, but never except in this "bad report," which was carefully couched in language designed to strike terror and cause panic among the Israelites, are they called Nephilim.
Here are the scriptures in question:
(Numbers
13:30-33)30 Then Ca´leb tried to still the people toward Moses and went on to say: "Let us go up directly, and we are bound to take possession of it, because we can surely prevail over it." 31 But the men who went up with him said: "We are not able to go up against the people, because they are stronger than we are." 32 And they kept on bringing forth to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying: "The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in the midst of it are men of extraordinary size. 33 And there we saw the Neph´i·lim, the sons of A´nak, who are from the Neph´i·lim; so that we became in our own eyes like grasshoppers, and the same way we became in their eyes."And here is a scripture NOT quoted. It's true that they are not reffered to specifically as Nehpilim again. But they are called the 'sons of Anak':
(Deuteronomy
9:1-3)9 "Hear, O Israel, you are today crossing the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified to the heavens, 2 a people great and tall, the sons of An´a·kim, about whom you yourself have known and you yourself have heard it said, ‘Who can make a firm stand before the sons of A´nak?’ 3 And you well know today that Jehovah your God is crossing before you. A consuming fire he is. He will annihilate them, and he himself will subdue them before you; and you must dispossess them and destroy them speedily, just as Jehovah has spoken to you.So, if Anak is a person, then this would have the same meaning as the report from the spies. And this one came from Joshua.
The WTS assertion that Anak, means 'long-necked' seems completely unfounded and arbitrary to me. According to this verse:
(Joshua
15:13)13 And to Ca´leb the son of Je·phun´neh he gave a share in the midst of the sons of Judah at the order of Jehovah to Joshua, namely, Kir´i·ath-ar´ba ([said Ar´ba being] the father of A´nak), that is to say, He´bron.A'nak definately seems to be a name, not a descriptor.
As a side point: The Book of Enoch goes into more detail about the Nephilim. I believe that is where the WTS gets their idea that the nephilim were evil. Since that is not mentioned in Genesis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch
Here is what Genesis says about them:
(Genesis
6:4) . . . The Neph´i·lim proved to be in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of the [true] God continued to have relations with the daughters of men and they bore sons to them, they were the mighty ones who were of old, the men of fame.They were mighty men of fame, but not bullies as the WTS says. The only way they would get THAT idea is from the book of Enoch, which they disregard as noncannonical.
Lore - W.W.S.D?
