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Canaan

Also known as Promised Land

Named in 76 verses across 12 books, first in Numbers 13:2.

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In the Bible

All 11 verses in Numbers, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Numbers

  • Numbers 13:2

    “Send out for yourself men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers’ tribes send one man who is a leader among them.”

  • Numbers 13:17

    When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.

  • Numbers 26:19

    The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but they died in the land of Canaan.

  • Numbers 32:30

    But if they do not arm themselves and go across with you, then they must accept their possession among you in the land of Canaan.”

  • Numbers 32:32

    We will cross over into the land of Canaan armed before the LORD, that we may have our inheritance on this side of the Jordan.”

  • Numbers 33:40

    Now the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard that the Israelites were coming.

  • Numbers 33:51

    “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

  • Numbers 34:2

    “Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:

  • Numbers 34:29

    These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to apportion the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

  • Numbers 35:10

    “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

  • Numbers 35:14

    Select three cities across the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge.

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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