Canaanites

How Nave’s arranged it

• Eleven nations, descended from CanaanGenesis 10:15–19Deuteronomy 7:11 Chronicles 1:13–16
• Territory ofGenesis 10:19Genesis 12:6Genesis 15:18Exodus 23:31Numbers 13:29Numbers 34:2–12Joshua 1:4Joshua 5:1
• Given to the IsraelitesGenesis 12:6Genesis 12:7Genesis 15:18Genesis 17:8Exodus 23:23Deuteronomy 7:1–3Deuteronomy 32:49Psalms 135:11Psalms 135:12
• Wickedness ofGenesis 13:13Leviticus 18:25Leviticus 18:27Leviticus 18:28Leviticus 20:23
• To be expelled from the landExodus 33:2Exodus 34:11
• To be destroyedExodus 23:23Exodus 23:24Deuteronomy 19:1Deuteronomy 31:3–5
• Not expelledJoshua 17:12–18Judges 1:1–33Judges 3:1–3
• Defeat the IsraelitesNumbers 14:45Judges 4:1–3
• Defeated by the IsraelitesNumbers 21:1–3Joshua 11:1–16Judges 4:4–24
• By the Egyptians1 Kings 9:16
• Chariots ofJoshua 17:18
• Isaac forbidden by Abraham to take a wife fromGenesis 28:1

The passages, in Bible order (42)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 9:25–27

   he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”

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   “First of all, let us show great reverence to our parents, as we read in Genesis 9:25-27, that whoever was blessed by their father, was blessed, and whoever was cursed by their father, was cursed! Therefore, God has granted this grace to parents, so that the piety of their children may be provoked. Therefore, it is the duty of children to obey their parents. Honor your father, so that he may bless you.

   “But Noah, awakening from his wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him, said: Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers. Awakening from wine, Noah curses his offspring by whom he was mocked; however, …

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2. Genesis 10:15–19

   And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,

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   “(Verse 15.) And Canaan begot his firstborn Sidon, and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, and the Girgashites, and the Hivites, and the Arkites, and the Sinites, and the Arvadites, and the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. From Canaan, Sidon was born, from whom the city of Sidon in Phoenicia is named. Then the Arkite, who founded Ark, a town situated opposite Tripolis at the roots of Mount Lebanon. Not far from there was another city named Sini, which, after various events of war, was destroyed and only retained its original name.

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3. Genesis 10:19

   and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

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   “(Verse 19.) And the boundary of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you come to Gerar, as far as Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha. These are the cities of Sidon and Gerar, and Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah and Zeboiim, which are known to all, but it is important to note that Lasha itself is now called Callirhoe, where the hot springs flow into the Dead Sea.

   “And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon,....

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4. Genesis 12:6

   Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.

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   “And when they had come to it, Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give …

   “And Abram passed through the land,.... Entering the northern part of it, as appears by his going southward, Gen 12:9 he went on unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh; the place afterwards called Shechem, from a prince of that name in the times of Jacob; and so it was called when Moses wrote, and therefore, by way of anticipation, calls it so here; it was about the middle of the land of Canaan, and the same with Sychar, a city of Samaria, in the times of Christ, Joh 4:

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5. Genesis 12:7

   Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

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   “And the Lord appeared unto Abram,....

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6. Genesis 13:13

   But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

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   “(Verse 13) And the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before God exceedingly. This addition, "before God," is superfluous in the Septuagint interpreters, since the inhabitants of Sodom were wicked and sinners among all people. However, a person is said to be a sinner before God, who can appear righteous among people, just as it is declared in the proclamation of Zachariah and Elizabeth that they were both righteous before God (Luke 1:6). And in the Psalter it is said: 'No living creature shall be justified in your sight.' (Ps. 142:2)

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7. Genesis 15:18

   On 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—

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   “Foreign peoples are given to Abraham as though for education and so that the most scrupulous mind of the just person might cut away their vices and correct their errors. But what is most evident here is rather the mystery of the church. Through its apostles, "who are Israelites, to whom belong the patriarchs," and from whose patriarchs "Christ was born according to the flesh" under the law, the church was to be constituted from the gathering of pagan peoples who would believe.

   “In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram,....

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8. Genesis 17:8

   And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”

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   “And I will give to you and to your seed after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. It requires a more laborious exposition on how it should be understood as fulfilled or still expected to be …

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9. Genesis 28:1

   So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.

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   “And Isaac called Jacob,....

   “- Jacob’s Journey to Haran 3. קהל qâhāl, “congregation.” 9. מחלת māchălat, Machalath, “sickness, or a harp.” 19. לוּז lûz, Luz, “almond.” The blessing of his sons was the last passage in the active life of Isaac, after which he retires from the scene. Jacob now becomes the leading figure in the sacred history. His spiritual character has yet come out to view. But even now we can discern the general distinction in the lives of the three patriarchs. Abraham’s is a life of authority and decision; Isaac’s, of submission and acquiescence; and Jacob’s, of trial and struggle.

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10. Genesis 38:2

    There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua, and he took her as a wife and slept with her.

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    “And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite,....

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11. Exodus 23:23

    For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them.

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    “For mine Angel shall go before thee,....

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12. Exodus 23:24

    You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.

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    “Thou shalt not bow down to their gods,....

    “Break down their images - מצבתיהם matstsebotheyhem, from נצב natsab, to stand up; pillars, anointed stones, etc., such as the baitulia. See Clarke on Gen 28:18 (note).

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13. Exodus 23:31

    And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

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    “And I will set thy bounds,....

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14. Exodus 33:2

    And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

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    “And I will send an angel before thee,....

    “I will send an angel - In Exo 23:20, God promises to send an angel to conduct them into the good land, in whom the name of God should be; that is, in whom God should dwell. See Clarke’s note on Exo 23:20 (note). Here he promises that an angel shall be their conductor; but as there is nothing particularly specified of him, it has been thought that an ordinary angel is intended, and not that Angel of the Covenant promised before. And this sentiment seems to be confirmed by the following verse.

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15. Exodus 34:11

    Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

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    “Observe thou that which I command thee this day,....

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16. Leviticus 18:25

    Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

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    “And the land is defiled,....

    “The land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants - This is a very nervous prosopopoeia or personification; a figure by which any part of inanimate nature may be represented as possessing the passions and reason of man. Here the land is represented as an intelligent being, with a deep and refined sense of moral good and evil: information concerning the abominations of the people is brought to this personified land, with which it is so deeply affected that a nausea is produced, and it vomits out its abominable and accursed inhabitants.

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