Gibborim

And that's the term that's going to be used mostly for giants, well, i- i- you know, after the flood.

I mean, you get Gibborim that shows up in Joshua 16.

You can ...

And it's translated as giant.

And they're the ones speaking to another terrible one, um, with the coming of the terrible of nations, Nebuchadnezzar.

So Ezekiel 32, Pharaoh is likely, uh, uh, Nico.

Um, and somehow, some way, not only are the mighty ones in the sights of the pit prison, m- the Gibborim, spirits talking to Pharaoh, but so are the strong ones, the El, al- are also involved on that and communicating directly with- Pharaoh.

Now, is that a unique capability of the giants, or could they commun- can they communicate to other people directly out of the pit prison? But what ...

So I think ultimately it's possession, but in the end, ul- it starts as this possession, then ultimately it results in- A Nephilim.

So in the sense that, yes, I think they're possessed- Like Nimrod? Are you thinking of, like, Nimrod, where he became like a Gibborim? Exactly.

Exactly.

Yeah.

And even in his introduction, we start seeing shades of Genesis 6 and ideas of this.

Why? Because it says that he became, he became a mighty man in the earth.

He was a Gibborim.

And so this is always a term we see used to refer to, one, it's the Nephilim in, in Genesis 6:4 are called the mighty man, the men of renown, which is Gibborim in Hebrew, and it indicates supernatural ability, superhuman ability.

Yeah

... "whom he loved exceedingly, and he bestowed upon him the garments at the coming of age of 20 years old." And it said, "And when putting, when he put on the garments, he became a Gibborim." So that ties into Genesis when it says that Nimrod became a Gibborim.

That's how, was through these garments.

Yeah.

The first story that we're gonna read today, a very tough story, talks about a three-year famine, uh, where the house of David has done a sin and they need to somehow pay for that sin.

Then there's a whole list of Gibborim, David's warriors.

Then we have a song of David, song of David's victory and salvation, back to David's warriors, and then back to another story where the house of David do a sin and have to somehow, the nation have to pay for the sin.

So we've got, you know, a story of sin and drought, then Gibborim, Shira, Gibborim, and back to another story of sin and forgiveness.

So this forms its own segment in the book.

So let's take a look at the first chapter, chapter twenty-one.

So, uh, in your opinion, uh, what do you think or see with this event in the garden? Is these, these coverings, is this just, you know, skins of the first animal that had to die to cover the sins of humanity or is there something deeper here in your opinion?

Well, there could be, but we don't have the detail in the Bible that really sort of explains what this clothing were, what it was, and it, was it more than just clothing? Was it just more than just skins? Um, so the language isn't really providing a lot, but these skins are also attributed in an apocrypha book, of the book of Jasher, as to being the clothing that was passed on down through the lineages after Eden into Noah, and then ends up in Nimrod's hands, that, uh, in that account provides the additional strength like a giant would have so that he could become like a Gibborim, a mighty one.

And so but again, we don't have that scripturally either.

Interesting, but we don't have that.

It's not properly a cave, but it's a network of caverns called Adullam.

And from there he builds an outlaw band, uh, called in Hebrew the Gibborim.

Gibbor is Hebrew for mighty, so they're the mighty ones.

There are 4, 5, 600 of them at various times in David's leadership, but they are devoted to David.

And of them, there are 37 that are the top 37, and they are also called the Gibborim, the mighty of the mighty.

David, uh, then sells his sword to the Philistines, uh, as a, as a mercenary, he, he and all of his s- uh, cavalry unit, and they raid into Amalekite territory.

Then the Philistines make one more a- attack against Saul, and Saul's army is devastated.

"What should I do? Should I go up? Should I attack?" And God says, "Attack straight ahead.

Then comes the refrain: "Eich nefelu gibborim," how the mighty have fallen.

Eich is the language of astonishment.

Gibborim means mighty ones or heroes.

This phrase is not mockery, it is grief.

Human greatness is fragile.

It's a political move.

Yeah, the Shem thing is interesting, too, because I think the word Shem is in the word for the Giborim, the mighty ones, right? And then in Genesis 11, during the Tower of Babel, they're trying to be...

Nimrod is called the Mighty One, and they want to be like the Mighty Ones with the word Hashem.

And I think the word Shem is in there.

And guess what? Sodom and Gomorrah, Nephilim.

The Tower of Babel, Geborim, Nimrod was a mighty man, Geborim, Nephil, Tephal, That's Nephilim.

The Nephilim are in the Promised Land.

Why? Because the text tells us.