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Canaan

Canaan Excerpt Though the land was God’s gift to Israel, it could be won only by hard fighting. The Lord gave them title to the  territory  but they had to possess it by marching on  every  part. The boundaries established by God and  promised  to Abraham ( Gen.  15:18-21 ) and  Moses  ( Deut.  1:6-8 ) were to extend from the wilderness on the south to the  Lebanon  mountain range on the north, and from  the Euphrates River on the east  to the Great Sea,  the Mediterranean,  on  the west. The added expression,  all the Hittite country,  probably refers not to the extensive empire of that name north of Canaan but to the fact that in ancient times the whole population of Canaan or any part of it was sometimes called “Hittite” (cf.  Gen. 15:20 ). “Pockets” of Hittite peoples existed here and there in Canaan. Thirty-eight years earlier Joshua had explored this good and fruitful la...

Canaan

Canaan Excerpt Though the land was God’s gift to Israel, it could be won only by hard fighting. The Lord gave them title to the  territory  but they had to possess it by marching on  every  part. The boundaries established by God and  promised  to Abraham ( Gen.  15:18-21 ) and  Moses  ( Deut.  1:6-8 ) were to extend from the wilderness on the south to the  Lebanon  mountain range on the north, and from  the Euphrates River on the east  to the Great Sea,  the Mediterranean,  on  the west. The added expression,  all the Hittite country,  probably refers not to the extensive empire of that name north of Canaan but to the fact that in ancient times the whole population of Canaan or any part of it was sometimes called “Hittite” (cf.  Gen. 15:20 ). “Pockets” of Hittite peoples existed here and there in Canaan. Thirty-eight years earlier Joshua had explored this good and fruitful lan...

Canaan

Canaan Excerpt Though the land was God’s gift to Israel, it could be won only by hard fighting. The Lord gave them title to the territory but they had to possess it by marching on every part. The boundaries established by God and promised to Abraham ( Gen. 15:18-21 ) and Moses ( Deut. 1:6-8 ) were to extend from the wilderness on the south to the Lebanon mountain range on the north, and from the Euphrates River on the east to the Great Sea, the Mediterranean,on the west. The added expression, all the Hittite country, probably refers not to the extensive empire of that name north of Canaan but to the fact that in ancient times the whole population of Canaan or any part of it was sometimes called “Hittite” ( cf . Gen. 15:20 ). “Pockets” of Hittite peoples existed here and there in Canaan. Thirty-eight years earlier Joshua had explored this good and fruitful land as 1 of the 12 spies ( Num. 13:1-16 ; there [ Num. 13:8 ] he is called “Hoshea,” a variant spelling of his name). The memory o...

Canaan

Canaan Excerpt Though the land was God’s gift to Israel, it could be won only by hard fighting. The Lord gave them title to the territory but they had to possess it by marching on every part. The boundaries established by God and promised to Abraham ( Gen. 15:18-21 ) and Moses ( Deut. 1:6-8 ) were to extend from the wilderness on the south to the Lebanon mountain range on the north, and from the Euphrates River on the east to the Great Sea, the Mediterranean,on the west. The added expression, all the Hittite country, probably refers not to the extensive empire of that name north of Canaan but to the fact that in ancient times the whole population of Canaan or any part of it was sometimes called “Hittite” (cf. Gen. 15:20 ). “Pockets” of Hittite peoples existed here and there in Canaan. Thirty-eight years earlier Joshua had explored this good and fruitful land as 1 of the 12 spies ( Num. 13:1-16 ; there [ Num. 13:8 ] he is called “Hoshea,” a variant spelling of his name). The memory of ...

Canaan

Canaan Excerpt Though the land was God’s gift to Israel, it could be won only by hard fighting. The Lord gave them title to the territory but they had to possess it by marching on every part. The boundaries established by God and promised to Abraham ( Gen. 15:18-21 ) and Moses ( Deut. 1:6-8 ) were to extend from the wilderness on the south to the Lebanon mountain range on the north, and from the Euphrates River on the east to the Great Sea, the Mediterranean, on the west. The added expression, all the Hittite country, probably refers not to the extensive empire of that name north of Canaan but to the fact that in ancient times the whole population of Canaan or any part of it was sometimes called “Hittite” (cf. Gen. 15:20 ). “Pockets” of Hittite peoples existed here and there in Canaan. Thirty-eight years earlier Joshua had explored this good and fruitful land as 1 of the 12 spies ( Num. 13:1-16 ; there [ Num. 13:8 ] he is called “Hoshea,” a variant spelling of his name). The memory ...

Canaan

Canaan Excerpt ‎Though the land was God’s gift to Israel, it could be won only by hard fighting. The Lord gave them title to the territory but they had to possess it by marching on every part. The boundaries established by God and promised to Abraham ( Gen. 15:18-21 ) and Moses ( Deut. 1:6-8 ) were to extend from the wilderness on the south to the Lebanon mountain range on the north, and from the Euphrates River on the east to the Great Sea, the Mediterranean, on the west. The added expression, all the Hittite country, probably refers not to the extensive empire of that name north of Canaan but to the fact that in ancient times the whole population of Canaan or any part of it was sometimes called “Hittite” ( cf . Gen. 15:20 ). “Pockets” of Hittite peoples existed here and there in Canaan. ‎Thirty-eight years earlier Joshua had explored this good and fruitful land as 1 of the 12 spies ( Num. 13:1-16 ; there [ Num. 13:8 ] he is called “Hoshea,” a variant spelling of his name)...