Archaeological Evidence for Giants in the Bible?

hello everybody uh welcome to Expedition Bible I'm Joel Kramer um today I want to cover a very interesting subject the Bible talks about Giants and the descendants of giants having lived in the Biblical land in ancient times and so is there anything that's been found in the archaeological record that uh provides evidence for these historical Giants uh in this video we're going to look at a discovery that was made in Israel of a horde of giant metal weapons this huge spearhead that is 66 cm long was found right here where I'm standing so in this

aerial footage you see in the background the Mediterranean Sea you see the town of kafar monach and then you see the agricultural field where in 1962 this horde of giant metal weapons was discovered okay I am in the field uh near uh the mosha kafar monach and right here is where the um report uh that came out in 1963 says that um the the hoorde of metal objects including tools and weapons and including these four massive spearheads heads uh according to that report they give a map there and uh this is the exact location of

where that horde was found all the way back in 1962 um a local farmer was expanding his F field he was plowing new ground and exposed all these metal objects Scholars debate about when these uh four spearheads date to um you'll see dates for them anywhere from about 4,300 years ago to 5,000 years ago or even older several of the tools and weapons from this discovery are currently on display in the Israel Museum so I'm here in the Israel Museum and uh just up here is the horde of tools and uh and weapons made of

copper that were found at monach and here we have the most impressive part of this collection which are these four giant spearheads the largest one there upside down this is the largest spearhead ever found in the land of the Bible of course it's back behind me in the display so it doesn't look so impressive so what I'll do is I'll I'll cut the size of it out of uh cardboard just to give you an understanding of how huge it actually is in 1963 after the study of this hord of weapons that were found in monache

the uh official Journal article came out um describing this and so in this journal article they uh they give the drawings of the four spearheads that were found and then they give their Dimensions so what I did is I just took those dimensions and a piece of cardboard and cut out uh those Dimensions because um when they're back in a case and back behind me when I'm talking in the Israel Museum you you they look very small and so this will give you a better perspective of just how big they are this is the small

of the four spearheads found at monach uh it's uh 13 in long and so uh it it is considered in the journal article as a huge spearhead and so I went around the Israel Museum comparing the size of the smallest spearhead to the other spearheads that were displayed elsewhere and many of the other spearheads were about this much smaller uh than this one quite a bit smaller here is on display um more spearheads from the Bronze Age these are typical spearheads you know they look maybe 6 in Long 7 8 in Long at the most

and so this already is considered a huge spearhead two more uh spearheads that are are within a half inch of each other were also found and you can see the difference in size however the largest spearhead that was found in The monache Horde is this one now again I just took the length of it from the drawing 66 cm that's 26 in and you just see how massive this spearhead is uh there is another spearhead that's only six uh CM smaller than this one that was found at megiddo so these aren't the only giant spearheads

that have been found uh but this is the largest one that's been found in the land of the Bible and it's just absolutely massive so when you're looking at this horde of spearheads then you start to realize what they're writing in this uh in this article and how true it is like for example um the authors of the article say of these spearheads that they're the most remarkable group among the monache fines and they describe them as massive because that's what they are uh we have a parallel of uh these spearheads in the biblical text

if we go to uh 2 Samuel 21: 16 we're introduced to this Warrior and we're given his name his name is Ish Bob and then he's described specifically as one of the descendants of the Giants whose spear weighed 300 shekels of bronze isn't that interesting we're not given uh his size and his weight but we're given the weight of his Spear and it's talking about his entire spear now if we take this uh the largest of the spear heads at monach uh this spearhead alone just the head is 5 lb but when it says 7

lb in the Bible it's talking about also the entire spear so you got to put the shaft on this imagine how big that shaft that pole must have been on a spear this big it would have been much taller than a man it would have weighed at least 2 lounds it would have weighed probably much more than that this is probably a bigger spear a heavier spear than the one that's described in 2 Samuel 21:16 in this article is uh is the authors write this the spearheads bear signs of use especially the heaviest which is

bent in one spot and worn in several places along the edges okay so they're saying that that these Spears bear the evidence that they were used as Spears uh despite them writing this a little later in the article they say uh they write this Spears were used in war and fighting in the case of the monach spears however their unusual size and weight would appear to be an obstacle rather than an aid to anyone carrying them we would like to suggest that these heavy Spears may have been used in yet another way way and uh

so they go on to suggest that these were decorative in nature they were used as decorations now why because well because they're too big to have been used by uh a normal-sized warrior okay now you have to keep in mind that um most Scholars are secular including the authors of this article they don't believe in Giants they don't believe that giants existed and that they're historical and therefore they have to give another explanation for why these massive spearheads were found and so they must be decorative keep in mind that earlier they had said and especially

the biggest one had evidence for being used as a spearhead this interpretation has to do with worldview if you uh don't believe in uh if you believe Giants are fairy tale uh beings then you're not going to interpret this as evidence of giant uh because you don't believe in them um however for those of us who do believe in the Bible and its historicity then we know that giants existed in the ancient past and when we find giant weapons then uh we using the Bible we would interpret them certainly I would to be evidence for

what the Bible is describing in these descendants of giants now also in the article that's uh very interesting is this the authors wrote a remarkable feature of the monache horde were the small thin ridged copper plates of which about 800 were found we suggest that these plates are scales of armor this also has a parallel in the Bible if we just flip back from 2 Samuel to 1 Samuel chapter uh 17 then we have the account of Goliath the most famous of all the biblical Giants in uh verse four of 1st Samuel 17 uh we

are introduced to Goliath of gath in verse five it says what that Goliath of gath was armed with a coat of male and that the weight of the coat was 5,000 shekels of bronze this is about 125 lb so we have archaeologically found at monach this pile of 800 scales of body armor and then we have body armor of a giant described in the biblical text now very interestingly the authors go on in the article to say this the only parallel for the monach scales was found at Tel gath where identical copper scales also forming

a package were uncovered in the area of the city wall isn't that amazing the only other place that body armor like the body armor found at monach has been found is tell gath the home town of Goliath who is the giant in the Bible whose body armor is described for us and we're given its weight um the uh the interpretation of the authors of the article are very similar uh with the body armor as with the spearheads they say this they say the great number of scales found would point to several coats of male being

hidden in The monache Horde what they're saying is it looks like this is one coat of armor but it's way too many scales uh to be just one coat of armor uh therefore there must be several different coats hidden within this pile of 800 scales now that's one interpretation if you don't believe in Giants however if you do believe in historical Giants uh because they're described in the Bible then uh this could be the coat of uh armor for a single individual who of course would be uh a giant or a descendant of the Giants

so in conclusion I uson here are the facts we have uh we have archaeological Discovery at monach of these massive metal spearheads and body armor we have a parallel of the huge spearhead found also at megiddo uh we also have a parallel of the body armor found at monach found at Tel gath we have a match uh that's why I interpret this as evidence for biblical Giants because what's been found in the ground is comparable to what's described in the Bible as the weapons of these descendants of giants uh of course um a secular uh

archaeologist a secular interpretation is uh going to not consider this evidence for Giants and so in their case they interpreted as must there must be several coats of armor amongst these 800 scales and uh and these giant spearheads must be decorative you can make up your own mind you can uh weigh the evidence yourself as for me I see this as a correlation between the biblical text and what was found in the ground and I believe that this is evidence to support the existence of these biblical Giants [Music]