Tag: Genesis 6

An Echo of Giants

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And in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
Genesis 14:5 (NASB)

The battle between kings in Genesis 14 brings us to a scene involving the Raphaim.

Do you know this word? We encounter it again a few times in scripture later.

giants, Rephaim
old tribe of giants
H7497: רְפָאִים (rᵊp̄ā’îm)

It is giants.

In fact, this whole chapter feels a bit like an echo of Genesis 6-9…

Echoes of Wickedness

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The scriptures echo.

The last time this kind of wickedness was described, God was grieved that He made humanity. In His grief, He ended their misery.

I think we have to view what is going to happen here the same way. It’s meant to be seen as a parallel.

But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the Lord.
Genesis 13:13 (NKJV)

Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
Genesis 13:13 (NKJV)

Generations

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Genesis is full of genealogies.

5:1, 6:9, 10:1, 10:32, 11:10, 11:27, 25:12, 25:19, etc, etc. SO MANY!

They appear linked to blessings. It shows the blessed ones receiving blessings: their offspring.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. On the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.
Genesis 5:1 (NASB)

These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:9 (NASB)

Now these are the records of the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood.
Genesis 10:1 (NASB)

But the FIRST time this word “generations” (tôlḏôṯ) is used, it’s in an odd place, used in an odd way. It doesn’t appear to describe a blessed people at all.

It’s here, in Genesis 2:

[a] This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven.
Genesis 2:4 (NASB)

The footnote for [a] says: “Literally: These are the generations”

It’s a “genealogy of the heavens and the earth.”

In the same way the blessing of a generation show the blessed (the parent) and the blessings (the children), perhaps we humans are meant to be a blessing to the heavens and earth God created.