Question: Did any Canaanites survive Joshua’s conquest of Jericho and other cities in Canaan?
A great deal depends here on who the Canaanites were.
Some are of the opinion that they were descended from the Nephilim, because there was at least one further eruption after the flood of Noah, Gen. 6:4!
As is shown in the Bible, Saul, and later King David were ordered by God to completely annihilate the Nephilim peoples, which has given so much pain to people when reading the Old Testament, but they had not taken the reason for such action into account as referring to the Promise of God re. the “seed of the woman”, which would have corrupted that Seed, and made impossible the Salvation of Mankind, re. The Man Christ Jesus!
So; IMO they were the “Canaanites”, and they were annihilated before they could nullify the Planned Salvation of Almighty God!
Nephilim Origin! (Study)
Question: What happened to all of the Nephilim (giants) after Noah’s flood? Did they ever exist again or was it just one-time event in human history?
Discussions are conducted occasionally, however quite infrequently, on the subject of Nephilim. Usually the subject is raised by a new Christian (Christ-One), after coming across the subject of giants in Scripture, and seeing the references in Genesis 6:2-4, and also others in the Old Testament, (OT).
In Gen.15, Abram is told by Almighty God the lands He will give to him and his seed. Some or all of the people named in verses 18 to 21 are considered Nephilim and had to be displaced by Israel at a later date, when they took possession of those lands under the leadership of Joshua.
To treat the subject seriously, three main questions need to be addressed.
1) Who were they?
2) How and why were they produced?
3) Are they still on Earth?
Who were/are they?
In the earliest reference to them, and using only Christ Authenticated Scripture, in Gen. 6:2, "That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them women of all that they chose".
The statement, "sons of God", has been, and is much discussed, as to meaning. As on occasions the term "angels" are interchangeable with "sons", and the original Hebrew can be either word, according to context. In the case of Gen. 6:2, the Septuagint translates "angels", (the PshittA translates "sons of God" looked on the "daughters of human beings", see: Ancient Aramaic Manuscripts, Pshitta O and A:). This states that the "sons of God" were not human!
In the case of Adam, he is described as "a son of God", (Luke 3:38); (see Companion Bible, page 1441); so by implication all angels are created beings, by Almighty God!
This means that either in the form of angels, or other form, they took human women, and had children by them! The implications of this, is that they could procreate at will, after they became Satan’s servants; and did so! The fact of their free-will, is borne out by the accounts in Revelation, showing that one third of all angels follow Satan (Rev. 12:4)!
See:
Nephilim; (Study)
Nephilim, who were they, and why? (Study)
Nephilim Origin! (Comment)
Nephilim and Noah's Ark (Study)
Nephilim and Israelites! (Comment)
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