from the Book of Enoch, Chapter 86:4-6.
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86:4 And I looked at them and saw, and behold they all let out their privy members, like
horses, and began to cover the cows of the oxen, and they all became pregnant and
bare elephants, camels, and asses
86:5 And all the oxen feared them and were affrighted at them, and began to bite with their
teeth and to devour, and to gore with their horns.
86:6 And they began moreover to devour those oxen; and behold all the children of the earth
began to tremble and quake before them and to flee from them.
86:4 As in Daniel 2, animals are here used to represent nations and people groups.It would appear that the elephants represent what has come to be known to us as nephylem, giants. The Hebrew word translated giant in Genesis 6:4 is Strong's Hebrew Dictionary entry H5303, nephiyl, means “feller, a bully or tyrant.”
If we have a correct understanding of ancient history, these giants were still in the land when Israel sent spies into Canaan, “And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants [H5303]: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.” “And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were.” Numbers 13:33, 22. Also see Deuteronomy 1:28; 2:10; 3:11; 9:2; 1 Samuel 17:4-7; 2 Samuel 21:20-22; 1 Chronicles 11:23.
It appears that “only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants” by the time Moses and Joshua took Canaan. Deuteronomy 3:11.
Later David dealt with the giant Goliath and his four brothers, destroying them. I Samuel 17:4; II Samuel 21:19-22.
Likely the camels represented the Emims, for Scriptures associates them with the Anakims: “The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.” We know little about these peoples from Scriptures. Deuteronomy 2:10-11.
Later we know for certain that Ishmael and his descendents are represented as wild asses, so apparently this description of a class of mankind represents qualities, not just Ishmaelites. Genesis 16:12 states of Ishmael, “And he will be a wild [H6501] man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.” The same Hebrew word here translated wild is translated wild ass in every other usage: Job 6:5, 11:12, 24:5, 39:5; Psalms 104:11; Isaiah 32:14; Jeremiah 2:24; 14:6; Hosea 8:9. Also in Enoch 89:11.
86:5-6 to 87:1 Even the strong and powerful among men could not stand up to the vicious and forceful ways of these giants. If the leaders were “affrighted,” how much more the children.
Gael Bataman
Originally Written: 15 September 2006
Latest Update: 10 December 2011
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