AMORITES

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• Genesis 10:15

  Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,

• Genesis 10:16

  the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

• Genesis 14:7

  They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.

• Genesis 15:16

  In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”

• Genesis 15:21

  the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”

• Genesis 48:22

  Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”

• Exodus 23:24

  You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

• Exodus 33:2

  I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

• Exodus 34:10

  He said, “Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which you are shall see the work of Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you.

• Exodus 34:11

  Observe 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.

• Numbers 13:29

  Amalek dwells in the land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.”

• Numbers 21:13

  From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the Amorites: for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

• Numbers 21:21

  Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

• Numbers 21:22

  “Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border.”

• Numbers 21:23

  Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz. He fought against Israel.

• Numbers 21:24

  Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.

• Numbers 21:25

  Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.

• Numbers 21:26

  For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.

• Numbers 21:27

  Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, “Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;

• Numbers 21:28

  for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.

• Numbers 21:29

  Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites.

• Numbers 21:30

  We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.”

• Numbers 32:33

  Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.

• Numbers 32:34

  The children of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

• Numbers 32:35

  Atrothshophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,

• Numbers 32:36

  Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.

• Numbers 32:37

  The children of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

• Numbers 32:38

  Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah. They gave other names to the cities which they built.

• Numbers 32:39

  The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.

• Numbers 32:40

  Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein.

• Numbers 32:41

  Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair.

• Numbers 32:42

  Nobah went and took Kenath, and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

• Deuteronomy 1:4

  after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.

• Deuteronomy 1:7

  Turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all the places near there, in the Arabah, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the seashore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

• Deuteronomy 1:19

  We traveled from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.

• Deuteronomy 1:20

  I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our God gives to us.

• Deuteronomy 2:26

  I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

• Deuteronomy 2:27

  “Let me pass through your land. I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.

• Deuteronomy 2:28

  You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink. Just let me pass through on my feet,

• Deuteronomy 2:29

  as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us.”

• Deuteronomy 2:30

  But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.

• Deuteronomy 2:31

  Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you. Begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.”

• Deuteronomy 2:32

  Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.

• Deuteronomy 2:33

  Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, his sons, and all his people.

• Deuteronomy 2:34

  We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We left no one remaining.

• Deuteronomy 2:35

  Only the livestock we took for plunder for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities which we had taken.

• Deuteronomy 2:36

  From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. Yahweh our God delivered up all before us.

• Deuteronomy 3:8

  We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon.

• Deuteronomy 3:9

  (The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.)

• Deuteronomy 7:1

  When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you;

• Deuteronomy 20:17

  but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;

• Deuteronomy 20:18

  that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.

• Joshua 3:10

  Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.

• Joshua 5:1

  When all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we had crossed over, their heart melted, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.

• Joshua 10:3

  Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,

• Joshua 10:4

  “Come up to me and help me. Let us strike Gibeon; for they have made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.”

• Joshua 10:5

  Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together and went up, they and all their armies, and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it.

• Joshua 10:6

  The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Don’t abandon your servants! Come up to us quickly and save us! Help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country have gathered together against us.”

• Joshua 10:7

  So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and the whole army with him, including all the mighty men of valor.

• Joshua 10:8

  Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands. Not a man of them will stand before you.”

• Joshua 10:9

  Joshua therefore came to them suddenly. He marched from Gilgal all night.

• Joshua 10:10

  Yahweh confused them before Israel. He killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah.

• Joshua 10:11

  As they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, Yahweh hurled down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.

• Joshua 10:12

  Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!”

• Joshua 10:13

  The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about a whole day.

• Joshua 10:14

  There was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man; for Yahweh fought for Israel.

• Joshua 10:15

  Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.

• Joshua 10:16

  These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.

• Joshua 10:17

  Joshua was told, saying, “The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”

• Joshua 10:18

  Joshua said, “Roll large stones to cover the cave’s entrance, and set men by it to guard them;

• Joshua 10:19

  but don’t stay there. Pursue your enemies, and attack them from the rear. Don’t allow them to enter into their cities; for Yahweh your God has delivered them into your hand.”

• Joshua 10:20

  When Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

• Joshua 10:21

  all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.

• Joshua 10:22

  Then Joshua said, “Open the cave entrance, and bring those five kings out of the cave to me.”

• Joshua 10:23

  They did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

• Joshua 10:24

  When they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, “Come near. Put your feet on the necks of these kings.” They came near, and put their feet on their necks.

• Joshua 10:25

  Joshua said to them, “Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for Yahweh will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight.”

• Joshua 10:26

  Afterward Joshua struck them, put them to death, and hanged them on five trees. They were hanging on the trees until the evening.

• Joshua 12:2

  Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;

• Joshua 12:3

  and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:

• Joshua 13:15

  Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.

• Joshua 13:16

  Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;

• Joshua 13:17

  Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,

• Joshua 13:18

  Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,

• Joshua 13:19

  Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar in the mount of the valley,

• Joshua 13:20

  Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth,

• Joshua 13:21

  all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.

• Joshua 24:12

  I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.

• Judges 1:34

  The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;

• Judges 1:35

  but the Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim. Yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became subject to forced labor.

• Judges 1:36

  The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.

• Judges 3:1

  Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

• Judges 3:2

  only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before:

• Judges 3:3

  the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.

• Judges 3:5

  The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

• Judges 3:6

  They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

• Judges 3:7

  The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.

• Judges 3:8

  Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years.

• Judges 6:10

  I said to you, “I am Yahweh your God. You shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.” But you have not listened to my voice.’”

• Judges 11:22

  They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.

• Judges 11:23

  So now Yahweh, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?

• 1 Samuel 7:14

  The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and Israel recovered its border out of the hand of the Philistines. There was peace between Israel and the Amorites.

• 2 Samuel 21:2

  The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);

• 1 Kings 9:20

  As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;

• 1 Kings 9:21

  their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day.

• 1 Kings 21:26

  He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

• 2 Kings 21:11

  “Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has also made Judah to sin with his idols;

• 1 Chronicles 1:13

  Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth,

• 1 Chronicles 1:14

  the Jebusite, and the Amorite, the Girgashite,

• 2 Chronicles 8:7

  As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel;

• Ezra 9:1

  Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

• Ezra 9:2

  For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”

• Ezra 10:18

  Among the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women: of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.

• Ezra 10:19

  They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.

• Ezra 10:20

  Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.

• Ezra 10:21

  Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.

• Ezra 10:22

  Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

• Ezra 10:23

  Of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (also called Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

• Ezra 10:24

  Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the porters: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.

• Ezra 10:25

  Of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and Izziah, and Malchijah, and Mijamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.

• Ezra 10:26

  Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah.

• Ezra 10:27

  Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.

• Ezra 10:28

  Of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.

• Ezra 10:29

  Of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, Jeremoth.

• Ezra 10:30

  Of the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.

• Ezra 10:31

  Of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,

• Ezra 10:32

  Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah.

• Ezra 10:33

  Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei.

• Ezra 10:34

  Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, and Uel,

• Ezra 10:35

  Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,

• Ezra 10:36

  Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,

• Ezra 10:37

  Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu,

• Ezra 10:38

  and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,

• Ezra 10:39

  and Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,

• Ezra 10:40

  Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,

• Ezra 10:41

  Azarel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,

• Ezra 10:42

  Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.

• Ezra 10:43

  Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah.

• Ezra 10:44

  All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

• Amos 2:9

  Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

• Amos 2:10

  Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.