And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,
Parallel translations
- WEB Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth,
- BSB And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
- NKJV Canaan begot Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth;
- NASB Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
- NLT Canaan’s oldest son was Sidon, the ancestor of the Sidonians. Canaan was also the ancestor of the Hittites,
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Quick answer
Canaan fathers Sidon and Heth, heads of peoples who would later occupy the land promised to Israel.
Overview
Canaan's line, from Genesis 10:15, names the inhabitants of the land God would give to Abraham's descendants. The Chronicler's list quietly anticipates the conquest, when these peoples were dispossessed because of their sin (Genesis 15:16; Deuteronomy 9:5). The promise of the land stands behind this genealogy as a witness to God's covenant faithfulness.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Gen 10:15–19And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,
- Gen 9:25–26And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
- Gen 9:22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
- Gen 49:30–32In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
- Gen 23:20And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.
- Exod 23:28And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
- Gen 23:3And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
- Gen 27:46And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
- Josh 9:1And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;
- 2 Sam 11:6And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.
- Gen 23:5And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
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