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Genesis 10:16

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10:16 the Jebusites, 1  Amorites, 2  Girgashites, 3 

Numbers 21:21

Context
The Victory over Sihon and Og

21:21 4 Then Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, saying, 5 

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[10:16]  1 sn The Jebusites were the Canaanite inhabitants of ancient Jerusalem.

[10:16]  2 sn Here Amorites refers to smaller groups of Canaanite inhabitants of the mountainous regions of Palestine, rather than the large waves of Amurru, or western Semites, who migrated to the region.

[10:16]  3 sn The Girgashites are an otherwise unknown Canaanite tribe, though the name is possibly mentioned in Ugaritic texts (see G. J. Wenham, Genesis [WBC], 1:226).

[21:21]  4 sn For this section, see further J. R. Bartlett, “Sihon and Og of the Amorites,” VT 20 (1970): 257-77, and “The Moabites and the Edomites,” Peoples of Old Testament Times, 229-58; S. H. Horn, “The Excavations at Tell Hesban, 1973,” ADAJ 18 (1973): 87-88.

[21:21]  5 tc Smr and the LXX have “words of peace.”



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