Its original pre-Israelite inhabitants were called Canaanites. ... The Israelites occupied and conqueredPalestine, or Canaan, beginning in the late 2nd millennium bce, or perhaps earlier; and the Bible justifies such occupation by identifying Canaan with the Promised Land, the land promised to the...
I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.Numbers 13:27And they gave this...
5 1 The Canaanites are afraid of the Israelites. 2 Circumcision is commanded the second time. 10 The passover is kept. 12 Manna ceaseth. 13 The Angel appeareth unto Joshua. 1 Now when all the Kings of the [a]Amorites, which were beyond Jordan Westward, and all the Kings ...
the Canaanites dwell by the sea—The remnant of the original inhabitants, who had been dispossessed by the Philistines, were divided into two nomadic hordes—one settled eastward near the Jordan; the other westward, by the Mediterranean. Matthew Poole's Commentary The south,where we are to ent...
After these things had been done, the leaders came to me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and the Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the neighboring peoples with their detestable practices, like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, ...
There is also The Texas Church of Freethought.There are quite a few non-theist Jewish congregations led by rabbis. Judaism has always been both a culture and a religion, so some Jews practice what they call Humanistic Judaism. They celebrate the culture while ditching the supernatural....