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Joshua 3:10
New Catholic Bible
Joshua 3:10
New Catholic Bible
10 Joshua continued, “This is how you will know that there is a living God among you who will drive out the Canaanites,[a] the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites from before you.
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- Joshua 3:10 A list of the peoples living in the land of Canaan (present-day Palestine and Lebanon): Canaanites: the oldest inhabitants of the country; Hittites: a people from Anatolia who had settled in Syria and were of non-Semitic origin; Hivites: a non-Semitic people on whom we have no information; Perizzites: these, as the etymology of their name indicates, are inhabitants of open villages; Girgashites: people on whom we have no information; Amorites: in around the 20th century B.C. they were living in the area of the middle Euphrates, where they found the kingdom of Mari and the first Babylonian dynasty; in around the 15th century B.C., they would settle in Syria and then push southward; Jebusites: the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
