Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth;
Parallel translations
- WEB Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,
- KJV And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,
- BSB And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
- 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 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 that which I command you today. Behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Num 34:2–15“Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders),
- Gen 23:3Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,
- 1 Chr 1:13Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth,
- Gen 15:18–21In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
- Gen 28:3–20May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
- Isa 23:4Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I have not travailed, nor given birth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.”
- Josh 11:8Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpah eastward. They struck them until they left them no one remaining.
- 2 Sam 11:3David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?”
- Exod 3:8I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Gen 49:13“Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.
- Josh 12:8–24in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
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