Canaan

The first 10 of 84 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Genesis

• Genesis 9:18

  The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.

• Genesis 9:22

  And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.

• Genesis 9:25

  he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”

• Genesis 9:26

  He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.

• Genesis 9:27

  May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”

• Genesis 10:6

  The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

• Genesis 10:15

  And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,

• Genesis 11:31

  And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.

• Genesis 16:3

  So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.

• 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.”

Events the dataset lists Canaan as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

1. c. 2346 BC
   Noah gets drunk and Canaan is cursedGenesis 9:20–27
2. c. 1451 BC
   War with CanaanitesJoshua 4:1–12:24

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.