And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
Parallel translations
- WEB Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,
- KJV And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,
- 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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Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth. These are ancestors of peoples Israel would later encounter in the promised land.
Overview
Canaan's descendants populate the land later promised to Israel, including the Hittites and the Sidonians. The listing connects the earlier curse on Canaan to the nations Israel would dispossess. These names anchor the Table of Nations to the land of promise, where God's redemptive purposes would advance toward the coming of Christ.
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- Exod 34:11Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
- Num 34:2–15“Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:
- Gen 23:3Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,
- 1 Chr 1:13And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
- Gen 15:18–21On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
- Gen 28:3–20May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.
- Isa 23:4Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”
- Josh 11:8and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who struck them down and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. They struck them down, leaving no survivors.
- 2 Sam 11:3So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
- Exod 3:8I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
- Gen 49:13Zebulun shall dwell by the seashore and become a harbor for ships; his border shall extend to Sidon.
- Josh 12:8–24the hill country, the foothills, the Arabah, the slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev—the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites):
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