Canaanites
35 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
14 sections
- Chariots of
- Defeat the Israelites
- Defeated by the Israelites
- Eleven Nations, Descended from Canaan
- Given to the Israelites
- Isaac Forbidden by Abraham to Take a Wife From
- Judah Marries a Woman of
- Not Expelled
- Prophecy Concerning
- Territory of
- The Exile Jews Take Wives From
- To be Destroyed
- To be Expelled from the Land
- Wickedness of
Chariots of
- Joshua 17:18 because the hill country will be yours as well. It is a forest; clear it, and its farthest limits will be yours. Although the Canaanites have iron chariots and although they are strong, you can drive them out.”
Defeat the Israelites
- Numbers 14:45 Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them all the way to Hormah.
- Judges 4:1–3 After Ehud died, the Israelites again did evil in the sight of the LORD. …
Defeated by the Israelites
- Numbers 21:1–3 When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming along the road to Atharim, he attacked Israel and captured some prisoners. …
- Joshua 11:1–16 Now when Jabin king of Hazor heard about these things, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon; to the kings of Shimron and Achshaph; …
- Judges 4:4–24 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. …
Eleven Nations, Descended from Canaan
- Genesis 10:15–19 And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites, …
- Deuteronomy 7:1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations— the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations …
- 1 Chronicles 1:13–16 And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites, …
Given to the Israelites
- Genesis 12:6–7 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. …
- 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 —
- 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.”
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 7:1–3 When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations— the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations …
- Deuteronomy 32:49 “Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.
- Psalm 135:11–12 Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan. …
Isaac Forbidden by Abraham to Take a Wife From
- Genesis 28:1 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.
Judah Marries a Woman of
- 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.
- 1 Chronicles 2:3 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanite. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD. So the LORD put him to death.
Not Expelled
- Joshua 17:12–18 But the descendants of Manasseh were unable to occupy these cities, because the Canaanites were determined to stay in this land. …
- Judges 1:1–33 After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the LORD, “Who will be the first to go up and fight for us against the Canaanites?” …
- Judges 3:1–3 These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan, …
Prophecy Concerning
- Genesis 9:25–27 he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.” …
Territory of
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 —
- 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.
- Numbers 13:29 The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”
- Numbers 34:2–12 “Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries: …
- Joshua 1:4 Your territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great River Euphrates— all the land of the Hittites— and west as far as the Great Sea.
- Joshua 5:1 Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and …
The Exile Jews Take Wives From
- Ezra 9:2 Indeed, the Israelites have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the people of the land. And the leaders and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness!”
To be Destroyed
- Exodus 23:23–24 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. …
- Deuteronomy 19:1 When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,
- Deuteronomy 31:3–5 The LORD your God Himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will dispossess them. Joshua will cross ahead of you, as the LORD has said. …
To be Expelled from the Land
- Exodus 33:2 And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
- Exodus 34:11 Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Wickedness of
- Genesis 13:13 But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.
- 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.
- Leviticus 18:27–28 For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled. …
- Leviticus 20:23 You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.
Related topics
Canaanites by the EgyptiansThe CanaanitesJabinDeborahTribe of Judah
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.