Giant Rephaim Once Occupied Palestine and Jordan

    It is evident that the area which these pastoral flocks were allowed to occupy must have been strictly circumscribed, for more than once it is stated significantly that "the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled in the land". The two kinsmen found it necessary, therefore, to part company. Lot elected to go towards Sodom in the plain of Jordan, and Abraham then moved towards the plain of Mamre, the Amorite, in the Hebron district. With Mamre, and his brothers, Eshcol and Aner, the Hebrew patriarch formed a confederacy for mutual protection.
      Other tribes which were in Palestine at this period included the Horites, the Rephaims, the Zuzims, the Zamzummims, and the Emims. These were probably representatives of the older stocks. Like the Amorites, the Hittites or "children of Heth" were evidently "latecomers", and conquerors. When Abraham purchased the burial cave at Hebron, the landowner with whom he had to deal was one Ephron, son of Zohar, the Hittite. This illuminating statement agrees with what we know regarding Hittite expansion about 2000 B.C. The "Hatti" or "Khatti" had constituted military aristocracies throughout Syria and extended their influence by forming alliances. Many of their settlers were owners of estates and traders who intermarried with the indigenous peoples and the Arabian invaders. As has been indicated (Chapter I), the large-nosed Armenoid section of the Hittite confederacy appear to have contributed to the racial blend known vaguely as the Semitic. Probably the particular group of Amorites with whom Abraham became associated had those pronounced Armenoid traits which can still be traced in representatives of the Hebrew people. Of special interest in this connection is Ezekiel's declaration regarding the ethnics of Jerusalem: "Thy birth and thy nativity", he said, "is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite."
It was during Abraham's residence in Hebron that the Western Land was raided by a confederacy of Babylonian and Elamite battle lords. The Biblical narrative which deals with this episode is of particular interest and has long engaged the attention of European scholars:
    
But the days of the brilliant Hammurabi Dynasty were drawing to a close. It endured for about a century longer than the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt, which came to an end, according to the Berlin calculations, in 1788 B.C. Apparently some of the Hammurabi and Amenemhet kings were contemporaries, but there is no evidence that they came into direct touch with one another. It was not until at about two centuries after Hammurabi's day that Egypt first invaded Syria, with which, however, it had for a long period previously conducted a brisk trade. Evidently the influence of the Hittites and their Amoritic allies predominated between Mesopotamia and the Delta frontier of Egypt, and it is significant to find in this connection that the "Khatti" or "Hatti" were referred to for the first time in Egypt during the Twelfth Dynasty, and in Babylonia during the Hammurabi Dynasty, sometime shortly before or after 2000 B.C. About 1800 B.C. a Hittite raid resulted in the overthrow of the last king of the Hammurabi family at Babylon. The Hyksos invasion of Egypt took place after 1788 B.C.

Nephilim Giants Megaliths in the Biblical Lands Revealed

Amorite Giant's Megaliths in the Biblical Lands Revealed

 Megaliths at Baalbek. For more on Biblical megaliths in the Transjordan  www.nephilimgiants.net : Mysteries of the Megaliths Revealed in the Bible

Intermediate Bronze Age Transjordan 2200 2300 BC Megalithic Tombs

Greek mega (“great”) and lithos (“stone”) and describes tombs built of large unworked boulders (though other stones are sometimes used) often covered by mounds of earth or stone piles.

   
   Megalithic tombs were constructed in the Land if Isreal during phases of the Chalcolithic and early bronze periods. In the late third millennium, two types of the megalithic tombs, extant already in the Early Bronze Age, became widespread: stone or earthen tumuli, and dolmens.

The base of the tumulus was bounded with one or more rings of small stones. Fields containing thousands of dolmans may be found in Transjordan and the Golan. 

   Amorite Dolman in the Transjordan

Archaeology and the Bible, George A. Barton, 1922

 Amorite Dolman from Jordan.  The Stones were originally covered in earth, making a burial mound

      

      In Africa they are associated with skeletons which reveal their origin, and similar dolmans are met with in parts of Palestine, more especially on the eastern side of the Jordan, with which the name of the Amorite is connected. Cromlechs of a like form exist in Western Spain, France, and in Britian, and since the Libyan race, whose remains they cover in Africa, claim physiological relationship with the “Red Kelt,” it is permissible to regard them as marking the former presence of the race to which the Amorite belong.  Fields containing thousands of dolmans may be found in Transjordan and the Golan. Dolman remains.

Dolman located in Cornwall England

    
        Dolmans occur in the southwest of England and throughout the continent of Europe, Asia Minor, the Caucasus and parts of India and Northern Africa. Professor A.H. Keane identifies the megalithic monuments of northern Asia, of the Korea and Japan, as the work of the stone-age Caucasic peoples; from the study of these dolmans, together with their contents, he arrives s at the conclusion that during the early Neolithic period the east and north-east of Asia were inhabited by Aryan population.

   Similar monuments of the stone age have been found in Japan, India, Persia, the Caucasus, the Crimea, Bulgaria, also in Tripoli, Tunis, Algeria, Morrocco, Malta, southern Italy, Sardinia, Corsica and the Belaeric Isles, Spain, Portugal, France, the British Isles, Scananavia, and the German shores of the Baltic. Some scholars hold that all these monuments were made by one race of men, who migrated from country to country. As the monuments are not found at very great distances from the sea, the migrations are supposed to have followed the seacoast.

 

On the west of the Jordan megalithic monuments were probably once numerous since traces of them still survive in Galilee and Judea, but later divergent civilizations have removed most of them. In the time of Amos, none of these “gilgals” was used by the Hebrews as a place of worship, of which the prophet didn’t approve, Amos 4:4 5:5