CANAANITES

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• Genesis 9:25

  He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”

• Genesis 9:26

  He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.

• Genesis 9:27

  May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.”

• Genesis 10:15

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

• Genesis 10:16

  the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

• Genesis 10:17

  the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

• Genesis 10:18

  the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.

• Genesis 10:19

  The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon — as you go toward Gerar — to Gaza — as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim — to Lasha.

• 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 13:13

  Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

• 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 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 28:1

  Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

• Genesis 38:2

  Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.

• Exodus 23:23

  For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.

• 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 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.

• 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 34:11

  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.

• Leviticus 18:25

  The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.

• Leviticus 18:27

  (for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled);

• Leviticus 18:28

  that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

• Leviticus 20:23

  You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

• 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 14:45

  Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.

• Numbers 21:1

  The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharim. He fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.

• Numbers 21:2

  Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”

• Numbers 21:3

  Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. The name of the place was called Hormah.

• Numbers 34:2

  “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),

• Numbers 34:3

  then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward.

• Numbers 34:4

  Your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and it shall pass southward of Kadesh Barnea; and it shall go from there to Hazar Addar, and pass along to Azmon.

• Numbers 34:5

  The border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the sea.

• Numbers 34:6

  “‘For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border. This shall be your west border.

• Numbers 34:7

  “‘This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for yourselves Mount Hor.

• Numbers 34:8

  From Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath; and the border shall pass by Zedad.

• Numbers 34:9

  Then the border shall go to Ziphron, and it shall end at Hazar Enan. This shall be your north border.

• Numbers 34:10

  “‘You shall mark out your east border from Hazar Enan to Shepham.

• Numbers 34:11

  The border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain. The border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward.

• Numbers 34:12

  The border shall go down to the Jordan, and end at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders around it.’”

• 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 7:2

  and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;

• Deuteronomy 7:3

  neither shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

• Deuteronomy 19:1

  When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations, whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;

• Deuteronomy 31:3

  Yahweh your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.

• Deuteronomy 31:4

  Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.

• Deuteronomy 31:5

  Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.

• Deuteronomy 32:49

  “Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is across from Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession.

• 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 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 11:1

  When Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph,

• Joshua 11:2

  and to the kings who were on the north, in the hill country, in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,

• Joshua 11:3

  to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.

• Joshua 11:4

  They went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.

• Joshua 11:5

  All these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.

• Joshua 11:6

  Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”

• Joshua 11:7

  So Joshua came suddenly, with all the warriors, against them by the waters of Merom, and attacked them.

• Joshua 11:8

  Yahweh 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.

• Joshua 11:9

  Joshua did to them as Yahweh told him. He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.

• Joshua 11:10

  Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword: for Hazor used to be the head of all those kingdoms.

• Joshua 11:11

  They struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who breathed. He burned Hazor with fire.

• Joshua 11:12

  Joshua captured all the cities of those kings, with their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded.

• Joshua 11:13

  But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only. Joshua burned that.

• Joshua 11:14

  The children of Israel took all the plunder of these cities, with the livestock, as plunder for themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They didn’t leave any who breathed.

• Joshua 11:15

  As Yahweh commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua. Joshua did so. He left nothing undone of all that Yahweh commanded Moses.

• Joshua 11:16

  So Joshua captured all that land, the hill country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah, the hill country of Israel, and the lowland of the same;

• Joshua 17:12

  Yet the children of Manasseh couldn’t drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

• Joshua 17:13

  When the children of Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t utterly drive them out.

• Joshua 17:14

  The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance, since we are a numerous people, because Yahweh has blessed us so far?”

• Joshua 17:15

  Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest, and clear land for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”

• Joshua 17:16

  The children of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel.”

• Joshua 17:17

  Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, that is, to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, “You are a numerous people, and have great power. You shall not have one lot only;

• Joshua 17:18

  but the hill country shall be yours. Although it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and it’s farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.”

• Judges 1:1

  After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of Yahweh, saying, “Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”

• Judges 1:2

  Yahweh said, “Judah shall go up. Behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.”

• Judges 1:3

  Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot.” So Simeon went with him.

• Judges 1:4

  Judah went up, and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. They struck ten thousand men in Bezek.

• Judges 1:5

  They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and they fought against him. They struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

• Judges 1:6

  But Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.

• Judges 1:7

  Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

• Judges 1:8

  The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, took it, struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

• Judges 1:9

  After that, the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, and in the South, and in the lowland.

• Judges 1:10

  Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron. (The name of Hebron before that was Kiriath Arba.) They struck Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

• Judges 1:11

  From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (The name of Debir before that was Kiriath Sepher.)

• Judges 1:12

  Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to the man who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it.”

• Judges 1:13

  Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it, so he gave him Achsah his daughter as his wife.

• Judges 1:14

  When she came, she got him to ask her father for a field. She dismounted from off of her donkey; and Caleb said to her, “What would you like?”

• Judges 1:15

  She said to him, “Give me a blessing; because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.” Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

• Judges 1:16

  The children of the Kenite, Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.

• Judges 1:17

  Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called Hormah.

• Judges 1:18

  Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron with its border.

• Judges 1:19

  Yahweh was with Judah; and drove out the inhabitants of the hill country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

• Judges 1:20

  They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, and he drove the three sons of Anak out of there.

• Judges 1:21

  The children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem, but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

• Judges 1:22

  The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and Yahweh was with them.

• Judges 1:23

  The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.)

• Judges 1:24

  The watchers saw a man come out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”

• Judges 1:25

  He showed them the entrance into the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man and all his family go.

• Judges 1:26

  The man went into the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.

• Judges 1:27

  Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shean and its towns, nor Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

• Judges 1:28

  When Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and did not utterly drive them out.

• Judges 1:29

  Ephraim didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.

• Judges 1:30

  Zebulun didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites lived among them, and became subject to forced labor.

• Judges 1:31

  Asher didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the inhabitants of Sidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob;

• Judges 1:32

  but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.

• Judges 1:33

  Naphtali didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but he lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and of Beth Anath became subject to forced labor.

• 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 4:1

  The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, when Ehud was dead.

• Judges 4:2

  Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

• Judges 4:3

  The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years.

• Judges 4:4

  Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, judged Israel at that time.

• Judges 4:5

  She lived under Deborah’s palm tree between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

• Judges 4:6

  She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and lead the way to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

• Judges 4:7

  I will draw to you, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into your hand.’”

• Judges 4:8

  Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go.”

• Judges 4:9

  She said, “I will surely go with you. Nevertheless, the journey that you take won’t be for your honor; for Yahweh will sell Sisera into a woman’s hand.” Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

• Judges 4:10

  Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh; and ten thousand men followed him; and Deborah went up with him.

• Judges 4:11

  Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab, Moses’ brother-in-law, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.

• Judges 4:12

  They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to Mount Tabor.

• Judges 4:13

  Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles, to the river Kishon.

• Judges 4:14

  Deborah said to Barak, “Go; for this is the day in which Yahweh has delivered Sisera into your hand. Hasn’t Yahweh gone out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.

• Judges 4:15

  Yahweh confused Sisera, all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak. Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled away on his feet.

• Judges 4:16

  But Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth of the Gentiles; and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword. There was not a man left.

• Judges 4:17

  However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

• Judges 4:18

  Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, “Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; don’t be afraid.” He came in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.

• Judges 4:19

  He said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty.” She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him a drink, and covered him.

• Judges 4:20

  He said to her, “Stand in the door of the tent, and if any man comes and inquires of you, and says, ‘Is there any man here?’ you shall say, ‘No.’”

• Judges 4:21

  Then Jael Heber’s wife took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he fainted and died.

• Judges 4:22

  Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek.” He came to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent peg was in his temples.

• Judges 4:23

  So God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel on that day.

• Judges 4:24

  The hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

• 1 Kings 9:16

  Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, taken Gezer, burned it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

• 1 Chronicles 1:13

  Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth,

• 1 Chronicles 1:14

  the Jebusite, and the Amorite, the Girgashite,

• 1 Chronicles 1:15

  the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,

• 1 Chronicles 1:16

  the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.

• 1 Chronicles 2:3

  The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua’s daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight; and he killed him.

• 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.”

• Psalms 135:11

  Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan,

• Psalms 135:12

  and gave their land for a heritage, a heritage to Israel, his people.