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Canaan
Also known as Promised Land
Named in 76 verses across 12 books, first in Zephaniah 2:5.
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In the Bible
All 1 verse in Zephaniah, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
Zephaniah
- Zephaniah 2:5
Woe to the dwellers of the seacoast, O nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy you, and no one will be left.”
Events here
Events the dataset sets at Canaan. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.
- c. 1921 BCAbraham enters Canaan
- c. 1920 BCAbraham and Lot Separate
- c. 1418 BCSubjugation by Cushan-rishathaim
- c. 1410 BCDeliverance by Othniel
- c. 1378 BCSubjugation by Eglon
- c. 1360 BCDeliverance by Ehud
- c. 1298 BCSubjugation by Jabin
- c. 1278 BCDeliverance by Barak And Deborah
- c. 1258 BCSubjugation by Midian
- c. 1251 BCDeliverance by Gideon
- c. 1218 BCUsurpation by Abimelech
- c. 1215 BCJudgeship of Tola
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).