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Canaan

Also known as Promised Land

Named in 76 verses across 12 books, first in Judges 3:1.

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In the Bible

All 6 verses in Judges, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Judges

  • Judges 3:1

    These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,

  • 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.

  • Judges 4:23

    On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites.

  • Judges 4:24

    And the hand of the Israelites grew stronger and stronger against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him.

  • Judges 5:19

    Kings came and fought; then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no plunder of silver.

  • Judges 21:12

    So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

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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