Bible Verses About The Canaanites

so the Asheri lived among the Kena'ani who were living in the land, because they didn't drive them out.

Naftali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beit-Shemesh or Beit-'Anat but lived among the Kena'ani living in the land; however, the inhabitants of Beit-Shemesh and Beit-'Anat became forced labor for them.

The Emori forced the people of Dan into the hills; for they would not let them come down to the valley.

The Emori had resolved to live in the Heres Hills, in Ayalon and in Sha'alvim; but when the power of the house of Yosef grew greater, they became subject to forced labor.

So the territory of the Emori was from the Scorpion Ascent and the Rock upward.

These are the nations which ADONAI allowed to remain, in order to put to the test all the people of Isra'el who had not known any of the wars with Kena'an.

This was only so that the generations of Isra'el who had previously known nothing of war might learn about it.

These nations consisted of the five chiefs of the P'lishtim, all the Kena'ani, the Tzidoni, and the Hivi who lived in the hills of the L'vanon between Mount Ba'al-Hermon and the entrance to Hamat.

They stayed there to test whether Isra'el would pay attention to the mitzvot of ADONAI, which, through Moshe, he had ordered their ancestors to obey.

They went on to serve their idols, which became a snare for them.

They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

Yes, they shed innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to Kena'an's false gods, polluting the land with blood.