Bible Verses About Canaanites

He said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant.

May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant.

And Chanaan begot Sidon his firstborn, the Hethite,

And the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite, and the Gergesite.

The Hevite and Aracite: the Sinite,

And the Aradian, the Samarite, and the Hamathite: and afterwards the families of the Chanaanites were spread abroad.

And the limits of Chanaan were from Sidon as one comes to Gerara even to Gaza, until thou enter Sodom and Gomorrha, and Adama, and Seboim even to Lesa.

Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.

And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

And my angel shall go before thee, and shall bring thee in unto the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherexite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hevite, and the Jebuzite, whom I will destroy.

Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou shalt not do their works, but shalt destroy them, and break their statues.

For all these detestable things the inhabitants of the land have done, that were before you, and have defiled it.

Beware then, lest in like manner, it vomit you also out, if you do the like things: as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

And when king Arad the Chanaanite, who dwelt towards the south, had heard this, to wit, that Israel was come by the way of the spies, he fought against them, and overcoming them carried off their spoils.

But Israel binding himself by vow to the Lord, said: If thou wilt deliver thus people into my hand, I will utterly destroy their cities.

And the Lord heard the prayers of Israel, and delivered up the Chanaanite, and they cut them off and destroyed their cities: and they called the name of that place Horma, that is to say, Anathema.

Command the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you are entered into the land of Chanaan, and it shall be fallen into your possession by lot, it shall be bounded by these limits:

The south side shall begin from the wilderness of Sin, which is by Edom: and shall have the most salt sea for its furthest limits eastward:

Which limits shall go round on the south side by the ascent of the Scorpion and so into Senna, and reach toward the south as far as Cadesbarne, from whence the frontiers shall go out to the town called Adar, and shall reach as far as Asemona.

And the limits shall fetch a compass from Asemona to the torrent of Egypt, and shall end in the shore of the great sea.

And the west side shall begin from the great sea, and the same shall be the end thereof.

But toward the north side the borders shall begin from the great sea, reaching to the most high mountain,

From which they shall come to Emath, as far as the borders of Sedada:

And the limits shall go as far as Zephrona, and the village of Enan. These shall be the borders on the north side.