Bible Verses About The Canaanites

Kena‘an fathered Tzidon his firstborn, Het,

the Y’vusi, the Emori, the Girgashi,

the Hivi, the ‘Arki, the Sini,

the Arvadi, the Tz’mari and the Hamati. Afterwards, the families of the Kena‘ani were dispersed.

Now Adonai said to Avram, “Get yourself out of your country, away from your kinsmen and away from your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.

I will make of you a great nation, I will bless you, and I will make your name great; and you are to be a blessing.

I will bless those who bless you, but I will curse anyone who curses you; and by you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”

So Avram went, as Adonai had said to him, and Lot went with him. Avram was 75 years old when he left Haran.

Avram took his wife Sarai, his brother’s son Lot, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, as well as the people they had acquired in Haran; then they set out for the land of Kena‘an and entered the land of Kena‘an.

ADONAI said to Avram, after Lot had moved away from him, "Look all around you from where you are, to the north, the south, the east and the west.

All the land you see I will give to you and your descendants forever,

and I will make your descendants as numerous as the specks of dust on the earth - so that if a person can count the specks of dust on the earth, then your descendants can be counted.

Get up and walk through the length and breadth of the land, because I will give it to you."

"When you enter the land ADONAI your God is giving you, you are not to learn how to follow the abominable practices of those nations.

There must not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through fire, a diviner, a soothsayer, an enchanter, a sorcerer,

a spell-caster, a consulter of ghosts or spirits, or a necromancer.

and said to them, "I know that ADONAI has given you the land. Fear of you has fallen on us; everyone in the land is terrified at the thought of you.

We've heard how ADONAI dried up the water in the Sea of Suf ahead of you, when you left Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Emori on the other side of the Yarden, Sichon and 'Og, that you completely destroyed them.

As soon as we heard it, our hearts failed us. Because of you, everyone is in a state of depression. For ADONAI your God - he is God in heaven above and on the earth below.

After the death of Y'hoshua, the people of Isra'el asked ADONAI, "Who will go up for us first to fight against the Kena'ani?"

ADONAI said: "Y'hudah will go up; here, I have handed the land over to him."

Y'hudah said to his brother Shim'on, "Come up with me into my assigned territory, so that we can fight against the Kena'ani; and I likewise will go with you into your territory." So Shim'on went with him.

Y'hudah went up; and ADONAI gave the Kena'ani and the P'rizi into their hands; of those in Bezek they killed ten thousand men.

They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him. They killed the Kena'ani and the P'rizi,

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