Canaan

Descendants of

• Genesis 10:6

  And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

• Genesis 10:15

  And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,

• 1 Chronicles 1:8

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

• 1 Chronicles 1:13

  And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,

Called THE SANCTUARY

• Exodus 15:17

  Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.

Called PALESTINE

• Exodus 15:14

  The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.

Called THE LAND OF ISRAEL

• 1 Samuel 13:19

  Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:

Called THE LAND OF THE HEBREWS

• Genesis 40:15

  For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

Called THE LAND OF THE JEWS

• Acts 10:39

  And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:

Called THE LAND OF PROMISE

• Hebrews 11:9

  By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

Called THE HOLY LAND

• Zechariah 2:12

  And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.

Called THE LORD'S LAND

• Hosea 9:3

  They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

Called IMMANUEL'S LAND

• Isaiah 8:8

  And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

Called BEULAH

• Isaiah 62:4

  Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.

Promised to Abraham and his seed

• Genesis 12:1–7

  Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. …

• Genesis 13:14–17

  And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. …

• Genesis 15:18–21

  In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, …

• Genesis 17:8

  And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

• Deuteronomy 12:9

  For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.

• Deuteronomy 12:10

  But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;

• Psalms 105:11

  Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:

Renewed to Isaac

• Genesis 26:3

  Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

Extent of

According to the promise

• Genesis 15:18

  In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

• Exodus 23:31

  And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

• Deuteronomy 11:24

  Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.

• Joshua 1:4

  From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.

• Joshua 15:1

  This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.

After the conquest by Joshua

• Joshua 12:1–8

  Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east: Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdoth-pisgah: …

In Solomon's time

• 1 Kings 4:21

  And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.

• 1 Kings 4:24

  For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him.

• 2 Chronicles 7:8

  Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.

• 2 Chronicles 9:26

  And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

Prophecy concerning, after the restoration of Israel

• Ezekiel 47:13–20

  Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions. And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance. And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad; …

Fertility of

• Deuteronomy 8:7–9

  For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

• Deuteronomy 11:10–13

  For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year. …

Fruitfulness of

• Numbers 13:27

  And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

• Numbers 14:7

  And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.

• Numbers 14:8

  If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

• Jeremiah 2:7

  And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

• Jeremiah 32:22

  And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

Products of

Fruits

• Deuteronomy 8:8

  A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;

• Jeremiah 40:10

  As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.

• Jeremiah 40:12

  Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.

Mineral

• Deuteronomy 8:9

  A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

Exports of

• Ezekiel 27:17

  Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.

Famines in

• Genesis 12:10

  And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

• Genesis 26:1

  And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.

• Genesis 47:13

  And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

• Ruth 1:1

  Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

• 2 Samuel 21:1

  Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.

1 Kings 17

Spies sent into, by Moses

• Numbers 13:17–29

  And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain: And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds; …

Conquest of, by the Israelites

• Numbers 21:21

  And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

• Deuteronomy 3:3–6

  So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining. And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many. …

• Psalms 44:1–3

  To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

Numbers 35, Joshua 6, Joshua 7, Joshua 8, Joshua 9, Joshua 10, Joshua 11, Joshua 12

Divided by lot among the twelve tribes, and families

• Numbers 26:55

  Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

• Numbers 26:56

  According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.

• Numbers 33:54

  And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.

• Numbers 34:13

  And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:

By Joshua, Eleazar and a prince from each tribe

• Numbers 34:16–29

  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance. …

• Numbers 35:1–8

  And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them. And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts. …

Joshua 14, Joshua 15, Joshua 16, Joshua 17, Joshua 18, Joshua 19

Divided into twelve provinces by Solomon

• 1 Kings 4:7–19

  And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision. And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim: The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan: …

Into two kingdoms, Judah and Israel

• 1 Kings 11:29–36

  And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field: And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces: And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee: …

• 1 Kings 12:16–21

  So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents. But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. …

Roman provinces of

• Luke 3:1

  Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituræa and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,

• John 4:3

  He left Judæa, and departed again into Galilee.

• John 4:4

  And he must needs go through Samaria.