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Identifier: dictionaryofbibl01scha (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of the Bible..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
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and strong cities alongJ the shore. Gen. 10 : 19. Besides thepossessions of the Israelites, the landof Canaan embraced Phoenicia on thenorth and Philistia on the south-west.Zeph. 2 : 5. The land of Canaan wascalled the land of Israel, 1 Sam. 13 : 19,because it was occupied by the descend-ants of Jacob or Israel; the holy loud,Zech. 2 : 12 ; the land of promise, Heb.11: 9, because it was promised to Abra-ham and his posterity as their posses-sion ; the land of Judah, Jer. 39: 10,because Judah was the leading tribe;the hoid of the Hebrews, Gen. 40 : 15, orthe descendants of Eber, an ancestor ofAbraham. The modern name of Pal-; estine, or the land of the Philistines,was originally applied to the region ly-ing along the coast of the Mediter-155 CAN CAN ranean, south-west of the Land of Prom-ise, but in its present usage denotes thewhole country bounded by the Jordanon the east, the Mediterranean on thewest, Arabia on the south, and Lebanonon the north. For physical features,see Palestine.
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ZonyiliuU East Sketch-Map of Canaan before the Conquest. History.—Previous to its conquest byJoshua, Canaan was peopled by severaltribes, as Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites,Girgasites, Hivites, Perizzites, and fourothers, all early known as Canaanites.Gen. 10 : 15-19. Later, Canaanitesappears to designate a separate tribe, and156 the land was inhabited by them and sixother tribes. Canaan was the country forwhich Terah started, Gen. 11: 31; A braindwelt in it; it was promised to him fora possession, Gen. 12 : 5, 8, etc. ; Isaac,Jacob, and the patriarchs made theirhome there. Gen. 26-35. It was leftby Jacob because of thefamine; searched by thetwelve spies, Num. 13 : 2 ;viewed by Moses, Deut.32:49; conquered byJoshua, Josh. 11:23; di-vided by lot among thetwelve tribes, Josh. 13 : 7 ;a king of the country wasslain by Deborah and Ba-rak. Jud. 4:24. See Map.In the temple at Kar-nak, in Egypt, a triple listof 118 or 119 towns of Ca-naan has lately been dis-covered, which is believedto be a

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