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Bible Verses About Canaanites

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  1. Neither could the children of Manasses overthrow these cities, but the Chanaanite began to dwell in his land.

  2. But after that the children of Israel were grown strong, they subdued the Chanaanites, and made them their tributaries, and they did not kill them.

  3. And the children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, and said: Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to possess, whereas I am of so great a multitude, and the Lord hath blessed me?

  4. And Joshua said to them: If thou be a great people, go up into the woodland, and cut down room for thyself in the land of the Pherezite and the Raphaims: because the possession of mount Ephraim is too narrow for thee.

  5. And the children of Joseph answered him: We cannot go up to the mountains, for the Chanaanites that dwell in the low lands, wherein are situate Bethsan with its towns, and Jezrael in the midst of the valley, have chariots of iron.

  6. And Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasses: Thou art a great people, and of great strength, thou shalt not have one lot only:

  7. But thou shalt pass to the mountain, and shalt cut down the wood, and make thyself room to dwell in: and mayst proceed farther, when thou hast destroyed the Chanaanites, who as thou sayest have iron chariots, and are very strong.

  8. These are the nations which the Lord left, that by them he might instruct Israel, and all that had not known the wars of the Chanaanites:

  9. That afterwards their children might learn to fight with their enemies, and to be trained up to war:

  10. The five princes of the Philistines, and all the Chanaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hevites that dwelt in Mount Libanus, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entering into Emath.

  11. And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord after the death of Aod:

  12. And the Lord delivered them up into the hands of Jabin, king of Chanaan, who reigned in Asor: and he had a general of his army named Sisara, and he dwelt in Haroseth of the Gentiles.

  13. And the children of Israel cried to the Lord: for he had nine hundred chariots set with scythes and for twenty years had grievously oppressed them.

  14. And Chanaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and the Hethite,

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

  16. And the Hevite, and the Aracite, and the Sinite,

  17. And the Aradian, and the Samarite, and the Hamathite.

  18. Who brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for ever.

  19. With a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.