The Complete Companion Bible is described as:
The KJV Online Study Bible in PDF [The Bullinger Bible in PDF]
The Companion Bible by E. W. Bullinger which is an trusted in-depth personal Bible study resource for those who seek to know and understand God’s Word in the trusted and familiar language of the King James Version (KJV).Extensive marginal notes with appropriate Hebrew and Greek analysis provide alternate translations of critical passages and call attention to other relevant texts (brackets in original).
To show how unhelpful some study Bibles, companion Bibles, study resources, marginal notes can be.
It has Gen 6:4 as:
There were Nephilim in the earth in the days of Noah; after their destruction by the Flood, as well as before it, when the angels came unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became might men which were of old, men of renown (emphasis in original).
The marginal note notes:
There was another irruption, the result being like those “of old.”
It has Num 13:33 as:
And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as locusts, and so we were in their sight (emphasis in original).
The marginal note notes:
giants. Heb. nephilim. Those mentioned if Gen, 6. 4 were all destroyed in the Flood ; these came from a second irruption of fallen angels “after that” : i. e. after “those days” = the days of Noah.
Some will take issue that it renders bene ha Elohim/sons of God as Angels so, I will succinctly note that Job 38:7, as one example, shows us that “sons of God” can refer to non-human beings (which the LXX has as “Angeloi”: plural of “Angelos”) since they, at the very least, witnessed the creation of the Earth.
Jude and 2 Peter 2 combined refer to a sin of Angels, place that sin to pre-flood days and correlate it to sexual sin which occurred after the Angels, “left their first estate,” after which they were incarcerated, and there’s only a one-time fall/sin of Angels in the Bible.
The original, traditional, and majority view among the earliest Jewish and Christians commentators, starting in BC days, was the “Angel view” as I proved in my book, On the Genesis 6 Affair’s Sons of God: Angels or Not?: A Survey of Early Jewish and Christian Commentaries Including Notes on Giants and the Nephilim.
No, this was said to be the, “KJV Online Study Bible” but the KJV itself has that text as:
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Thus, it’s oddly interesting that the KJV Online Study Bible/Bullinger Bible (referring to Heinrich Bullinger 1504-1575) artificially inserts, “Nephilim…after their destruction by the Flood” when, as we shall see, there’s no indication of any such thing.
Also, the flood’s not even mentioned for the very fist time until a full 13 vss later. Thus, this is a case of ignoring a verse’s context, reading ahead 13 vss and, in fact, all the way to Num, and then looping back to make the artificial insertion—which ends up damaging theology proper, as all post-flood Nephilology does.
Now, what indication is there of, “another irruption” of fallen Angels post-flood? Zero.
But, but, but Num 13:33 says or, Moses wrote or, the Bible says or, God revealed that statement—is how post-flood Nephilologists would authoritatively, and yet generically, put it.
Key question are: who said it, why was it said, was it accurate, what was the reaction to it, etc.?
Note also that the rendering is odd as well since it has it that who was seen upon reconnoitering the land of Cannan were, “the giants [Nephilim], the sons of Anak, which come of the Nephilim” so it’s circular: they saw Nephilim but Nephilim refer to Anakim and/but Anakim come from Nephilim so, really, Anakim are Nephilim.
Most versions have it that the statement is that they saw Nephilim, that incidentally Anakim are related to them, and that Nephilim are very, very, very tall.
Most versions also have it that Nephilim made the spies seem like grasshoppers: that’s how the KJV proper has it.
Yet, the locusts rendering comes form the LXX version. Yet, that verse lacks any reference to Anakim in that version’s version of that verse.
Thus, this is some sort of cut, rearrange, and paste job.
In any case, we may not have reference to, “a second irruption of fallen angels” but we do have post-flood Nephilim so that settles that.
Not so: recall the key questions. Well, this is just one version of one unreliable sentence from one unreliable “evil report” by 10 unreliable guys whom God rebuked so no one should believe them.
Caleb and Joshua didn’t believe them: and they were the other 2 spies.
Num 13 contains two reports: the first one is accepted as is and doesn’t note Nephilim but the second, evil report, was a fear-mongering scare-tactic “Don’t go in the woods!!!” style of tall-tale and took it up a notch by embellishing the original report and adding Nephilim into the mix.
So, indeed, “nephilim…were all destroyed in the Flood” we’re told who survived the flood five times (Genesis 7:7, 23; Hebrews 11:7; 1 Peter 3:20; and 2 Peter 2:5) but Nephilim aren’t on any of those lists.
Thus, some post-flood Nephilologists just invent other un-biblical fantasy stories about how they got past the flood: this resources just merely asserted, “a second irruption of fallen angels” as if God failed, He missed that loophole, and so the flood was much of a waste.
But what about, “‘after that’ : i. e. after ‘those days’ = the days of Noah” ergo, “in the days of Noah; after their destruction by the Flood.”
Gen 6:4 states, “Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.”
The question becomes: when were those days?
Well, Gen 6:1 told us, “When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.”
The next question becomes: when was afterward?
Since it was after those days then it was simply after, “When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them…”
Thus, the began doing it then and they continued to do it but that’s all pre-flood.
Such is how and why there’s literally zero reliable indication of post-flood Nephilim and only one unreliable sentence’s worth of indication of it from an unreliable evil report by unreliable guys whom God rebuked.
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