I always read Numbers 13:32 : the land devoured its people, as meaning that the nephalim cannibalised the people of the land? And that was part of the wickedness and destructive nature of the people's
I searched my commentaries for more explanation on the phrase. One pointed to the fact that the idea of a land eating people is found in a couple of other places: Leviticus 26:38 and Ezekiel 36:13-14. The context of Ezekiel suggests that the inverse of a land that eats its people is a land of bounty and cultivation with populous towns and villages. My feeling is that the phrase is about a territory that would be dangerous to enter, with threats from many different sources, not excluding the giant Nephilim already living there.
I always read Numbers 13:32 : the land devoured its people, as meaning that the nephalim cannibalised the people of the land? And that was part of the wickedness and destructive nature of the people's
I searched my commentaries for more explanation on the phrase. One pointed to the fact that the idea of a land eating people is found in a couple of other places: Leviticus 26:38 and Ezekiel 36:13-14. The context of Ezekiel suggests that the inverse of a land that eats its people is a land of bounty and cultivation with populous towns and villages. My feeling is that the phrase is about a territory that would be dangerous to enter, with threats from many different sources, not excluding the giant Nephilim already living there.
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