Psalms 78:55

78:55 He drove the nations out from before them;

he assigned them their tribal allotments ¹ 

and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down. ² 

Psalms 80:8

80:8 You uprooted a vine ³  from Egypt;

you drove out nations and transplanted it.

Psalms 105:44

105:44 He handed the territory of nations over to them,

and they took possession of what other peoples had produced, ⁴ 

Psalms 135:10-12

135:10 He defeated many nations,

and killed mighty kings –

135:11 Sihon, king of the Amorites,

and Og, king of Bashan,

and all the kingdoms of Canaan.

135:12 He gave their land as an inheritance,

as an inheritance to Israel his people.

Psalms 136:17-22

136:17 to the one who struck down great kings,

for his loyal love endures,

136:18 and killed powerful kings,

for his loyal love endures,

136:19 Sihon, king of the Amorites,

for his loyal love endures,

136:20 Og, king of Bashan,

for his loyal love endures,

136:21 and gave their land as an inheritance,

for his loyal love endures,

136:22 as an inheritance to Israel his servant,

for his loyal love endures,

Exodus 15:17

15:17 You will bring them in ⁵  and plant them in the mountain ⁶  of your inheritance,

in the place you made ⁷  for your residence, O Lord,

the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hands have established.

Exodus 15:19

15:19 For the horses of Pharaoh came with his chariots and his footmen into the sea,

and the Lord brought back the waters of the sea on them,

but the Israelites walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.”

Exodus 34:11

34:11 “Obey ⁸  what I am commanding you this day. I am going to drive out ⁹  before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

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, ¹⁰  Girgashites, ¹¹  Amorites, ¹²  Canaanites, ¹³  Perizzites, ¹⁴  Hivites, ¹⁵  and Jebusites, ¹⁶  seven ¹⁷  nations more numerous and powerful than you –

Joshua 10:42

10:42 Joshua captured in one campaign ¹⁸  all these kings and their lands, for the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel.

Joshua 11:23

11:23 Joshua conquered ¹⁹  the whole land, just as the Lord had promised Moses, ²⁰  and he assigned Israel their tribal portions. ²¹  Then the land was free of war.

Joshua 21:43

21:43 So the Lord gave Israel all the land he had solemnly promised to their ancestors, ²²  and they conquered ²³  it and lived in it.

Nehemiah 9:22-27

9:22 “You gave them kingdoms and peoples, and you allocated them to every corner of the land. ²⁴  They inherited the land of King Sihon of Heshbon ²⁵  and the land of King Og of Bashan. 9:23 You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess. 9:24 Their descendants ²⁶  entered and possessed the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites who were the inhabitants of the land. You delivered them into their hand, together with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with as they pleased. 9:25 They captured fortified cities and fertile land. They took possession of houses full of all sorts of good things – wells previously dug, vineyards, olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance. They ate until they were full ²⁷  and grew fat. They enjoyed to the full your great goodness.

9:26 “Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. ²⁸  They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies. 9:27 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who oppressed them. But in the time of their distress they called to you, and you heard from heaven. In your abundant compassion you provided them with deliverers to rescue them from ²⁹  their adversaries.

[78:55]  ¹ tn Heb “he caused to fall [to] them with a measuring line an inheritance.”

[78:55]  ² tn Heb “and caused the tribes of Israel to settle down in their tents.”

[80:8]  ³ sn The vine is here a metaphor for Israel (see Ezek 17:6-10; Hos 10:1).

[105:44]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the [product of the] work of peoples they possessed.”

[15:17]  ⁵ tn The verb is imperfect.

[15:17]  ⁶ sn The “mountain” and the “place” would be wherever Yahweh met with his people. It here refers to Canaan, the land promised to the patriarchs.

[15:17]  ⁷ tn The verb is perfect tense, referring to Yahweh’s previous choice of the holy place.

[34:11]  ⁸ tn The covenant duties begin with this command to “keep well” what is being commanded. The Hebrew expression is “keep for you”; the preposition and the suffix form the ethical dative, adding strength to the imperative.

[34:11]  ⁹ tn Again, this is the futur instans use of the participle.

[7:1]  ¹⁰ sn Hittites. The center of Hittite power was in Anatolia (central modern Turkey). In the Late Bronze Age (1550-1200 b.c.) they were at their zenith, establishing outposts and colonies near and far. Some elements were obviously in Canaan at the time of the Conquest (1400-1350 b.c.).

[7:1]  ¹¹ sn Girgashites. These cannot be ethnically identified and are unknown outside the OT. They usually appear in such lists only when the intention is to have seven groups in all (see also the note on the word “seven” later in this verse).

[7:1]  ¹² sn Amorites. Originally from the upper Euphrates region (Amurru), the Amorites appear to have migrated into Canaan beginning in 2200 b.c. or thereabouts.

[7:1]  ¹³ sn Canaanites. These were the indigenous peoples of the land, going back to the beginning of recorded history (ca. 3000 b.c.). The OT identifies them as descendants of Ham (Gen 10:6), the only Hamites to have settled north and east of Egypt.

[7:1]  ¹⁴ sn Perizzites. This is probably a subgroup of Canaanites (Gen 13:7; 34:30).

[7:1]  ¹⁵ sn Hivites. These are usually thought to be the same as the Hurrians, a people well-known in ancient Near Eastern texts. They are likely identical to the Horites (see note on the term “Horites” in Deut 2:12).

[7:1]  ¹⁶ sn Jebusites. These inhabited the hill country, particularly in and about Jerusalem (cf. Num 13:29; Josh 15:8; 2 Sam 5:6; 24:16).

[7:1]  ¹⁷ sn Seven. This is an ideal number in the OT, one symbolizing fullness or completeness. Therefore, the intent of the text here is not to be precise and list all of Israel’s enemies but simply to state that Israel will have a full complement of foes to deal with. For other lists of Canaanites, some with fewer than seven peoples, see Exod 3:8; 13:5; 23:23, 28; 33:2; 34:11; Deut 20:17; Josh 3:10; 9:1; 24:11. Moreover, the “Table of Nations” (Gen 10:15-19) suggests that all of these (possibly excepting the Perizzites) were offspring of Canaan and therefore Canaanites.

[10:42]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “at one time.”

[11:23]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “took.”

[11:23]  ²⁰ tn Heb “according to all which the Lord said to Moses.” The translation assumes this refers to the promise of the land (see 1:3). Another possibility is that it refers to the Lord’s instructions, in which case the phrase could be translated, “just as the Lord had instructed Moses” (so NLT; cf. also NIV “had directed Moses”).

[11:23]  ²¹ tn Heb “and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their allotted portions by their tribes.”

[21:43]  ²² tn Heb “which he had sworn to give to their fathers.”

[21:43]  ²³ tn Or “possessed.”

[9:22]  ²⁴ tn The words “of the land” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[9:22]  ²⁵ tc Most Hebrew MSS read “the land of Sihon and the land of the king of Heshbon.” The present translation (along with NAB, NASB, NIV, NCV, NRSV, CEV, NLT) follows the reading of one Hebrew MS, the LXX, and the Vulgate.

[9:24]  ²⁶ tn Heb “the sons.”

[9:25]  ²⁷ tn Heb “they ate and were sated.” This expression is a hendiadys. The first verb retains its full verbal sense, while the second functions adverbially: “they ate and were filled” = “they ate until they were full.”

[9:26]  ²⁸ tn Heb “they cast your law behind their backs.”

[9:27]  ²⁹ tn Heb “from the hand of” (so NASB, NIV); NAB “from the power of.”