The Canaanites
46 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
30 sections
- Abraham was Promised the Country of, of Inheritance
- Abraham: Called to Dwell Amongst
- Abraham: had his Faith Tried by Dwelling Amongst
- An Accursed Race
- Comprised Seven Distinct Nations
- Country of, Fertile
- Descended from Ham
- Different Families of
- Expelled for Wickedness
- Extremely Numerous
- Great and Mighty
- had Many Strong Cities
- Idolatrous
- Israel Commanded: Not to Fear
- Israel Commanded: Not to Follow Customs of
- Israel Commanded: Not to Follow Idols of
- Israel Commanded: Not to Intermarry With
- Israel Commanded: To Destroy all Vestiges of Their Idolatry
- Israel Commanded: To Destroy, Without Mercy
- Israel Commanded: To Make No League With
- Israel Ensnared By
- Kind to the Patriarchs
- Part of Left: To Chastise Israel
- Part of Left: To Try Israel
- Partially Subdued by Israel
- Possessions of, How Bounded
- Profane and Wicked
- some Descendants of, in Our Lord's Time
- Superstitious
- Terrified at the Approach of Israel
Abraham was Promised the Country of, of Inheritance
- Genesis 13:14–17 After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west, …
- 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.”
Abraham: Called to Dwell Amongst
- Genesis 12:1–5 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you. …
Abraham: had his Faith Tried by Dwelling Amongst
- 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 13:7 And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.
An Accursed Race
- Genesis 9:25–26 he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.” …
Comprised Seven Distinct Nations
- 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 …
Country of, Fertile
- Exodus 3:17 And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites— a land flowing with milk and honey.’
- Numbers 13:27 And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!
Descended from Ham
- Genesis 10:6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
Different Families of
- Genesis 10:15–18 And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites, …
Expelled for Wickedness
- Deuteronomy 9:4 When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of …
- Deuteronomy 18:12 For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.
Extremely Numerous
- Deuteronomy 7:17 You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”
Great and Mighty
- Numbers 13:28 Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
- 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 …
had Many Strong Cities
- Numbers 13:28 Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
- Deuteronomy 1:28 Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”
Idolatrous
- Deuteronomy 29:17 You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.
Israel Commanded: Not to Fear
- Deuteronomy 7:17–18 You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?” …
- Deuteronomy 31:7 Then Moses called for Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that the LORD swore to their fathers to give them, and you shall give it to …
Israel Commanded: Not to Follow Customs of
- Leviticus 18:26–27 But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations— neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you. …
Israel Commanded: Not to Follow Idols of
- Exodus 23:24 You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.
- Deuteronomy 7:25 You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.
Israel Commanded: Not to Intermarry With
- Deuteronomy 7:3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
- Joshua 23:12 For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,
Israel Commanded: To Destroy all Vestiges of Their Idolatry
- Exodus 23:24 You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.
- Deuteronomy 7:5 Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.
- Deuteronomy 7:25 You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.
Israel Commanded: To Destroy, Without Mercy
- Deuteronomy 7:2 and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
- Deuteronomy 7:24 He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.
Israel Commanded: To Make No League With
- Deuteronomy 7:2 and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
- Judges 2:2 and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?
Israel Ensnared By
- Judges 2:3 So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”
- Judges 2:19 But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.
- Psalm 106:36–38 They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them. …
Kind to the Patriarchs
- Genesis 14:13 Then an escapee came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the Oaks of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshcol and Aner, all of whom were bound by treaty to Abram.
- Genesis 23:6 “Listen to us, sir. You are God’s chosen one among us. Bury your dead in the finest of our tombs. None of us will withhold his tomb for burying your dead.”
Part of Left: To Chastise Israel
- Numbers 33:55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you settle.
- Judges 2:3 So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”
- Judges 4:2 So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.
Part of Left: To Try Israel
- Judges 2:21–22 I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died. …
- Judges 3:1–4 These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan, …
Partially Subdued by Israel
- Joshua 10:1 Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction — doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king — and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and …
- Judges 1:1–36 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?” …
Possessions of, How Bounded
- 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.
Profane and Wicked
- Leviticus 18:27 For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.
some Descendants of, in Our Lord's Time
- Matthew 15:22 And a Canaanite woman from that region came to Him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.”
- Mark 7:26 Now she was a Greek woman of Syrophoenician origin, and she kept asking Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.
Superstitious
- Deuteronomy 18:9–11 When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. …
Terrified at the Approach of Israel
- Exodus 15:15–16 Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; those who dwell in Canaan will melt away, …
- Joshua 2:9–11 and said to them, “I know that the LORD has given you this land and that the fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of you. …
- 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 …
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.