The World of Peleg

Genesis 10
1. Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem,
Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the
flood...
21. Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the
brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born...
25. And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was
Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Peleg was born about 100 years after the flood ... He lived for 239 years .... From 2249 to 2010 B.C.
Noah was alive throughout the days of Peleg ... Abraham's Father was alive during the days of Peleg.

Study the following verses and I'm sure you'll be amazed, as I
was, at just how much the Bible has to say about Giants. There
are other scriptures, but this is most of them. Some of the
fascinating tidbits that you'll learn are:

1) Scripture, at times, describes Giants as men.
2) Giants have children.
3) There were whole nations of Giants.
4) Giants were around at least from the time before the flood to
the time of David.
5) There was great wickedness among at least some of these
nations and therefore God allowed them to be destroyed.

You'll notice in book two of the Peleg Chronicles that three of the
giants are named Lunace, Ogre and Goblin. Some of the words
used in different cultures for giants have been, troll, ogre, and
goblin. I was struck by the fact that King Og who was a remnant
of the giants has a very similar name to that of Ogre, and that
the giant Anak's descendents were know as the Anakims. So
therefore, I gave two of my characters the names Ogre and
Goblin so as to show possible etymological histories for the
words.

"Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines
what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the
information and images of the present determines how those same
people will view the past"
-Arnold Toynbee, A Study of History (1934-61)

Job 41
1. Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook?
or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest
down?
2. Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore
his jaw through with a thorn?
3. Will he make many supplications unto thee?
will he speak soft words unto thee?
4. Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou
take him for a servant for ever?
5. Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or
wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
6. Shall the companions make a banquet of him?
shall they part him among the merchants?
7. Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or
his head with fish spears?
8. Lay thine hand upon him, remember the
battle, do no more.
9. Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not
one be cast down even at the sight of him?
10. None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who
then is able to stand before me?
11. Who hath prevented me, that I should repay
him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is
mine.
12. I will not conceal his parts, nor his power,
nor his comely proportion.
13. Who can discover the face of his garment? or
who can come to him with his double bridle?
14. Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth
are terrible round about.
15. His scales are his pride, shut up together as
with a close seal.
16. One is so near to another, that no air can
come between them.
17. They are joined one to another, they stick
together, that they cannot be sundered.
18. By his neesings a light doth shine, and his
eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19. Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and
sparks of fire leap out.
20. Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a
seething pot or caldron.
21. His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth
out of his mouth.
22. In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is
turned into joy before him.
23. The flakes of his flesh are joined together:
they are firm in themselves; they cannot be
moved.
24. His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as
a piece of the nether millstone.
25. When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are
afraid: by reason of breakings they purify
themselves.
26. The sword of him that layeth at him cannot
hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
27. He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as
rotten wood.
28. The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones
are turned with him into stubble.
29. Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at
the shaking of a spear.
30. Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth
sharp pointed things upon the mire.
31. He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he
maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
32. He maketh a path to shine after him; one
would think the deep to be hoary.
33. Upon earth there is not his like, who is made
without fear.

Psalms 104:25-26
25. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are
things creeping innumerable, both small and great
beasts.
26. There go the ships: there is that leviathan,
whom thou hast made to play therein.

Isaiah 27:1
1. In that day the Lord with his sore and great
and strong sword shall punish leviathan the
piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked
serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in
the sea.

1 Samuel 17:4
4. And there went out a champion out of the camp of the
Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits
and a span. (Note: approximately 9 feet 6 inches)

2 Samuel 21:15-22
15. Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and
David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against
the Philistines: and David waxed faint.
16. And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the
weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in
weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain
David.
17. But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the
Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto
him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that
thou quench not the light of Israel.
18. And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle
with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew
Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.
19. And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines,
where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the
brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a
weaver's beam.
20. And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of
great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every
foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to
the giant.
21. And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the
brother of David slew him.
22. These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the
hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

Job 16:14
14. He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon
me like a giant.

"If the earth is as young as our forebears thought
and as the creation model of origins predicts, then
evidence will be found which tells us that, in the
recent past, dinosaurs and man have co-existed.
There is, in fact, good evidence to suggest that
they still co-exist, and this is directly contrary to
the evolutionary model which teaches that
dinosaurs lived millions of years before man came
along, and that no man therefore can ever have
seen a living dinosaur. And to test that assertion,
we will now examine the issue by considering the
written evidence that has survived from the
records of various ancient peoples that describe,
sometimes in the most graphic detail, human
encounters with living giant reptiles that we
would call dinosaurs. And as we shall see, some of
those records are not so ancient."
- After the Flood, by Bill Cooper, pg. 131

(I highly recommend After the Flood for further
study. It is one of my favorite books, incredibly
exciting as a non-fiction read, and superbly
faithbuilding. Wow, wow, and wow! were my
constant exclamations as I read it, even the
second time through.)

It completely blows my mind when I look at the
incredible fossils of huge creatures which we now
call dinosaurs (a word that was invented by Sir
Richard Owens in 1841, meaning terrible lizard)
and compare them to the ancient descriptions
from the book of Job. These passages call for more
exclamations of Wow!

Job 40:15-24
15. Behold now behemoth, which I made with
thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
16. Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his
force is in the navel of his belly.
17. He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of
his stones are wrapped together.
18. His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his
bones are like bars of iron.
19. He is the chief of the ways of God: he that
made him can make his sword to approach unto
him.
20. Surely the mountains bring him forth food,
where all the beasts of the field play.
21. He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert
of the reed, and fens.
22. The shady trees cover him with their
shadow; the willows of the brook compass him
about.
23. Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth
not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into
his mouth.
24. He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth
through snares.

Psalm 148:7-10
7. Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons,
and all deeps:
8. Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy
wind fulfilling his word:
9. Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all
cedars:
10. Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and
flying fowl:

Isaiah 34:13
13. And thorns shall come up in her palaces,
nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof:
and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a
court for owls.

Jeremiah 51:34
34. Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath
devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made
me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up
like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my
delicates, he hath cast me out.

Micah 1:8
8. Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go
stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the
dragons, and mourning as the owls.

Malachi 1:3
3. And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and
his heritage waste for the dragons of the
wilderness.

Genesis 6:1-5
1. And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face
of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2. That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were
fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3. And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man,
for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and
twenty years.
4. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after
that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men,
and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men
which were of old, men of renown.

Numbers 13:32-33
32. And they brought up an evil report of the land which they
had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land,
through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up
the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are
men of a great stature.
33. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come
of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and
so we were in their sight.

Deuteronomy 9:1-2,4
1. Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in
to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great
and fenced up to heaven,
2. A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom
thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand
before the children of Anak!
4. ... but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord doth drive
them out from before thee.

Joshua 15:13-14
13. And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among
the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the
Lord to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which
city is Hebron.
14. And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and
Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

Joshua 14:15
15. And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba
was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from
war.

Deuteronomy 2:10-11,19-21 (Israelites passed by the way of the
wilderness of Moab.)
10. The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and
many, and tall, as the Anakims;
11. Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the
Moabites call them Emims....
19. And when thou comest nigh over against the children of
Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not
give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession;
because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.
20. (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt
therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
21. A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the
Lord destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and
dwelt in their stead:

Deuteronomy 3:11,13
11. For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of
giants; behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in
Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length
thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a
man. (Note: 9 cubits by 4 cubits equals approximately 13 feet by
6 feet.)
13. And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of
Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of
Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.

Joshua 11:21-23
21. And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from
the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from
all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel:
Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities.
22. There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the
children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there
remained.

Joshua 15:8
8. And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom
unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and
the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before
the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley
of the giants northward:

Joshua 14:15
15. And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then
get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there
in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim
be too narrow for thee.