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Canaan

Also known as Promised Land

Named in 76 verses across 12 books, first in Joshua 5:12.

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In the Bible

All 8 verses in Joshua, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Joshua

  • Joshua 5:12

    And the day after they had eaten from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. There was no more manna for the Israelites, so that year they began to eat the crops of the land of Canaan.

  • Joshua 14:1

    Now these are the portions that the Israelites inherited in the land of Canaan, as distributed by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of Israel.

  • Joshua 21:2

    at Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said to them, “The LORD commanded through Moses that we be given cities in which to live, together with pasturelands for our livestock.”

  • Joshua 22:9

    So the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in the land of Canaan to return to their own land of Gilead, which they had acquired according to the command of the LORD through Moses.

  • Joshua 22:10

    And when they came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an imposing altar there by the Jordan.

  • Joshua 22:11

    Then the Israelites received the report: “Behold, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar on the border of the land of Canaan, at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side.”

  • Joshua 22:32

    Then Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, together with the other leaders, returned to the Israelites in the land of Canaan and brought back a report regarding the Reubenites and Gadites in the land of Gilead.

  • Joshua 24:3

    But I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,

Events here

Events the dataset sets at Canaan. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

  1. c. 1921 BC
    Abraham enters CanaanGenesis 11:31–12:9
  2. c. 1920 BC
    Abraham and Lot SeparateGenesis 13:1–18
  3. c. 1418 BC
    Subjugation by Cushan-rishathaimJudges 3:7–8
  4. c. 1410 BC
    Deliverance by OthnielJudges 2:16–3:11
  5. c. 1378 BC
    Subjugation by EglonJudges 3:12–14
  6. c. 1360 BC
    Deliverance by EhudJudges 3:15–30
  7. c. 1298 BC
    Subjugation by JabinJudges 4:1–3
  8. c. 1278 BC
    Deliverance by Barak And DeborahJudges 4:4–5:31
  9. c. 1258 BC
    Subjugation by MidianJudges 6:1–10
  10. c. 1251 BC
    Deliverance by GideonJudges 6:11–8:28
  11. c. 1218 BC
    Usurpation by AbimelechJudges 8:29–9:57
  12. c. 1215 BC
    Judgeship of TolaJudges 10:1–2

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

The country which derived its name from the preceding. The name as first used by the Phoenicians denoted only the maritime plain on which Sidon was built. But in the time of Moses and Joshua it denoted the whole country to the west of the Jordan and the Dead Sea (Deut. 11:30). In Josh. 5:12 the LXX. read, “land of the Phoenicians,” instead of “land of Canaan.”

The name signifies “the lowlands,” as distinguished from the land of Gilead on the east of Jordan, which was a mountainous district. The extent and boundaries of Canaan are fully set forth in different parts of Scripture (Gen. 10:19; 17:8; Num. 13:29; 34:8).

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