Anakim: The Goliaths of Gath

It is most satisfactory to find, as the history of the Israelites unfolds itself, the same indications of truth and accuracy still continuing to present themselves—the same signatures (as it were) of a subscribing witness of credit, impressed on every sheet as we turn it over in its order. The glory of Israel is now brought before us: David comes upon the scene, destined to fill the most conspicuous place in the annals of his country, and furnishing, in the details of his long and eventful life, a series of arguments such as we are in search of, decisive, I think, of the reality of his story, and of the fidelity with which it is told. With these I shall be now for some time engaged.

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Author: John James Blunt

Keywords: Goliath, Goliath of Gath, Goliath the giant, giant, giants, sons of Anak, Anakim, anakims

Bible reference(s): Num 13:33, Josh. 11:21-22, 1Sa 17:4

Source: Undesigned Coincidences in the Writings of the Old & New Testament (London: John Murray, 1869).

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