CANAAN

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• Genesis 9:18

  The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.

• Genesis 10:6

  The sons of Ham were: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

• Genesis 10:15

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

• Genesis 11:31

  Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.

• Genesis 12:1

  Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.

• Genesis 12:2

  I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

• Genesis 12:3

  I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

• Genesis 12:4

  So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

• Genesis 12:5

  Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 12:6

  Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanites were in the land, then.

• Genesis 12:7

  Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

• Genesis 12:10

  There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

• Genesis 13:14

  Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

• Genesis 13:15

  for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.

• Genesis 13:16

  I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.

• Genesis 13:17

  Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you.”

• Genesis 15:18

  In 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:

• Genesis 15:19

  the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,

• Genesis 15:20

  the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,

• Genesis 15:21

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

• Genesis 17:8

  I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”

• Genesis 23:2

  Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

• Genesis 26:1

  There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

• Genesis 26:3

  Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

• Genesis 40:15

  For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”

• Genesis 47:13

  There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

• Exodus 15:14

  The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.

• Exodus 15:17

  You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in; the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.

• Exodus 23:31

  I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

• Numbers 13:17

  Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country.

• Numbers 13:18

  See the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;

• Numbers 13:19

  and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;

• Numbers 13:20

  and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.

• Numbers 13:21

  So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.

• Numbers 13:22

  They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

• Numbers 13:23

  They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.

• Numbers 13:24

  That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.

• Numbers 13:25

  They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

• Numbers 13:26

  They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land.

• Numbers 13:27

  They told him, and said, “We came to the land where you sent us. Surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

• Numbers 13:28

  However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.

• 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 14:7

  They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.

• Numbers 14:8

  If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.

• Numbers 21:21

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

• Numbers 26:55

  Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

• Numbers 26:56

  According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.”

• Numbers 33:54

  You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.

• Numbers 34:13

  Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, “This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe;

• Numbers 34:16

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Numbers 34:17

  “These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.

• Numbers 34:18

  You shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.

• Numbers 34:19

  These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

• Numbers 34:20

  Of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.

• Numbers 34:21

  Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.

• Numbers 34:22

  Of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli.

• Numbers 34:23

  Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod.

• Numbers 34:24

  Of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.

• Numbers 34:25

  Of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.

• Numbers 34:26

  Of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.

• Numbers 34:27

  Of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.

• Numbers 34:28

  Of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.”

• Numbers 34:29

  These are they whom Yahweh commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

• Numbers 35:1

  Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

• Numbers 35:2

  “Command the children of Israel to give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in. You shall give suburbs for the cities around them to the Levites.

• Numbers 35:3

  They shall have the cities to dwell in. Their suburbs shall be for their livestock, and for their possessions, and for all their animals.

• Numbers 35:4

  “The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits around it.

• Numbers 35:5

  You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall be the suburbs of their cities.

• Numbers 35:6

  “The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the man slayer to flee to. Besides them you shall give forty-two cities.

• Numbers 35:7

  All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their suburbs.

• Numbers 35:8

  Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few. Everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give some of his cities to the Levites.”

• Deuteronomy 3:3

  So Yahweh our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people. We struck him until no one was left to him remaining.

• Deuteronomy 3:4

  We took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we didn’t take from them; sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

• Deuteronomy 3:5

  All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides a great many villages without walls.

• Deuteronomy 3:6

  We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.

• Deuteronomy 8:7

  For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;

• Deuteronomy 8:8

  a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;

• Deuteronomy 8:9

  a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.

• Deuteronomy 11:10

  For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn’t as the land of Egypt, that you came out of, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;

• Deuteronomy 11:11

  but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water from the rain of the sky,

• Deuteronomy 11:12

  a land which Yahweh your God cares for. Yahweh your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.

• Deuteronomy 11:13

  It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

• Deuteronomy 11:24

  Every place whereon the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the western sea shall be your border.

• Deuteronomy 12:9

  for you haven’t yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God gives you.

• Deuteronomy 12:10

  But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety;

• Joshua 1:4

  From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.

• Joshua 12:1

  Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:

• 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 12:4

  and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

• Joshua 12:5

  and ruled in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

• Joshua 12:6

  Moses the servant of Yahweh and the children of Israel struck them. Moses the servant of Yahweh gave it for a possession to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

• Joshua 12:7

  These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir. Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;

• Joshua 12:8

  in 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:

• Joshua 15:1

  The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was to the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south.

• Ruth 1:1

  In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

• 1 Samuel 13:19

  Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears”;

• 2 Samuel 21:1

  There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

• 1 Kings 4:7

  Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for a month in the year.

• 1 Kings 4:8

  These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;

• 1 Kings 4:9

  Ben Deker, in Makaz, in Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;

• 1 Kings 4:10

  Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);

• 1 Kings 4:11

  Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath, Solomon’s daughter, as wife);

• 1 Kings 4:12

  Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;

• 1 Kings 4:13

  Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, belonged to him; and the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars, belonged to him);

• 1 Kings 4:14

  Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

• 1 Kings 4:15

  Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);

• 1 Kings 4:16

  Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;

• 1 Kings 4:17

  Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

• 1 Kings 4:18

  Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

• 1 Kings 4:19

  Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer who was in the land.

• 1 Kings 4:21

  Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

• 1 Kings 4:24

  For he had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides around him.

• 1 Kings 11:29

  At that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the way; now Ahijah had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field.

• 1 Kings 11:30

  Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces.

• 1 Kings 11:31

  He said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you

• 1 Kings 11:32

  (but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);

• 1 Kings 11:33

  because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon. They have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did.

• 1 Kings 11:34

  “‘However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant’s sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;

• 1 Kings 11:35

  but I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it to you, even ten tribes.

• 1 Kings 11:36

  To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.

• 1 Kings 12:16

  When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their tents.

• 1 Kings 12:17

  But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

• 1 Kings 12:18

  Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

• 1 Kings 12:19

  So Israel rebelled against David’s house to this day.

• 1 Kings 12:20

  When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only.

• 1 Kings 12:21

  When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

• 1 Chronicles 1:8

  The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

• 1 Chronicles 1:13

  Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth,

• 2 Chronicles 7:8

  So Solomon held the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt.

• 2 Chronicles 9:26

  He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

• Psalms 44:1

  For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm. We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

• Psalms 44:2

  You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.

• Psalms 44:3

  For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.

• Psalms 105:11

  saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance”;

• Isaiah 8:8

  It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through; it will reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, Immanuel.

• Isaiah 62:4

  You will not be called Forsaken any more; nor will your land be called Desolate any more: but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.

• Jeremiah 2:7

  I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

• Jeremiah 32:22

  and gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

• Jeremiah 40:10

  As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who will come to us; but you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken.”

• Jeremiah 40:12

  then all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.

• Ezekiel 27:17

  Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your traffickers: they traded for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, and confections, and honey, and oil, and balm.

• Ezekiel 47:13

  Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This shall be the border, by which you shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.

• Ezekiel 47:14

  You shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I swore to give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall to you for inheritance.

• Ezekiel 47:15

  This shall be the border of the land: On the north side, from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad;

• Ezekiel 47:16

  Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer Hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.

• Ezekiel 47:17

  The border from the sea, shall be Hazar Enon at the border of Damascus; and on the north northward is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.

• Ezekiel 47:18

  The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the north border to the east sea you shall measure. This is the east side.

• Ezekiel 47:19

  The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook, to the great sea. This is the south side southward.

• Ezekiel 47:20

  The west side shall be the great sea, from the south border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.

• Hosea 9:3

  They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

• Zechariah 2:12

  Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

• Luke 3:1

  Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

• John 4:3

  he left Judea, and departed into Galilee.

• John 4:4

  He needed to pass through Samaria.

• Acts 10:39

  We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.

• Hebrews 11:9

  By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.