Joshua 9:1
The Gibeonites Deceive Israel
9:1 When the news reached all the kings on the west side of the Jordan – in the hill country, the lowlands, and all along the Mediterranean coast as far as Lebanon (including the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites) –
Genesis 15:18-21
15:18 That day the
Lord made a covenant
with Abram: “To your descendants I give
this land, from the river of Egypt
to the great river, the Euphrates River –
15:19 the land
of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
15:20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
15:21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
Exodus 3:8
3:8 I have come down
to deliver them
from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious,
to a land flowing with milk and honey,
to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Exodus 23:23
23:23 For my angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I will destroy them completely.
Exodus 23:28-31
23:28 I will send
hornets before you that will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.
23:29 I will not drive them out before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals
multiply against you.
23:30 Little by little
I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.
23:31 I will set
your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River,
for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.
Deuteronomy 7:1
The Dispossession of Nonvassals
7:1 When the Lord your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you – Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you –
Deuteronomy 9:1
Theological Justification of the Conquest
9:1 Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications.