{"podcast":{"title":"Weird Stuff in the Bible","slug":"weird-stuff-in-the-bible-6649872","podcast_index_feed_id":6649872,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/weird-stuff-in-the-bible","website_url":"https://weirdstuffinthebible.com","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/-ZOppuShe3vq4tSSH_KxtBKmqVC3XP56mHDUZkdQ0d0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hZjcw/Nzk2YTExZTI1NjBl/MTZmYjkzNDViM2Q3/NWJiMS5qcGc.jpg","author":"Luke Taylor","episode_count":139,"summary":"Find the answers to all those questions you were too embarrassed to ask in Sunday School. Welcome to Weird Stuff in the Bible, where we explore scripture passages that are bizarre, perplexing or just plain weird. Hosted by Luke Taylor. Dive deeper! Sign up for the newsletter (and catch up on past newsletters) at this link: https://weirdstuffinthebible.beehiiv.com/","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T22:17:45.808311+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-stuff-in-the-bible-6649872"},"episode":{"title":"The Mystery of Mount Hermon","slug":"the-mystery-of-mount-hermon","published_at":"2026-03-04T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-stuff-in-the-bible-6649872/the-mystery-of-mount-hermon","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-stuff-in-the-bible-6649872","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/612be9b6","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/612be9b6/22b70286.mp3","summary":"I’ve mentioned this a few times before: I’m a newspaper guy. Or, I was. I got degrees in journalism and in mass communication when I was in college. And I briefly worked for a few area papers around that time. And then I got into radio so I haven’t really done the reporter thing much since then. But I have taken those newspaper guy skills and applied them to how I study the Bible. You see, when you need to break a story, you have to establish the who, the what, the when, the where, and the why. And that’s what I’ve been doing with this story of the angelic Watchers who descended to the earth in the antediluvian era. All year long on this podcast, we’ve been breaking this story. WHO were the Watchers? In Genesis 6, they’re called the Sons of God. They’re angelic or spiritual beings who had a job of watching over humanity. WHAT did they do? Genesis 6 says When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. WHY did they do it? The Book of Enoch’s sixth chapter told us it was because they lusted after the women and wanted to create children with them. However, these children were the giants, or Nephilim, of the primordial world. WHEN did they do this? Enoch shed some light on that as well: the days of Jared, Enoch’s father, approximately 1000-1200 years before the flood. And that brings us now to one question about this transgression of the Watchers that we haven’t really answered yet: the WHERE. The Book of Enoch tells us where this took place: a location known as Mount Hermon. And Hermon is part of the Bashan region of mountains in the northern part of Israel. A dark and demonic area called The Place of the Serpent. A place known t…","meta_description":"I’ve mentioned this a few times before: I’m a newspaper guy. Or, I was. I got degrees in journalism and in mass communication when I was in college. And I…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1777,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/weird-stuff-in-the-bible-6649872/episodes/the-mystery-of-mount-hermon/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-stuff-in-the-bible-6649872/the-mystery-of-mount-hermon.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}