Genesis 10:19

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Genesis 10:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible

17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,

19 and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

20 These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.

21 And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.

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Genesis 13:12

Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

Genesis 13:13

But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 13:14

After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,

Genesis 13:15

for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.

Genesis 13:16

I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

Genesis 13:17

Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.”

Genesis 15:18

On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—

Genesis 15:19

the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,

Genesis 15:20

Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,

Genesis 15:21

Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”

Numbers 34:2

“Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:

Numbers 34:3

Your southern border will extend from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. On the east, your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea,

Numbers 34:4

cross south of the Ascent of Akrabbim, continue to Zin, and go south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it will go on to Hazar-addar and proceed to Azmon,

Numbers 34:5

where it will turn from Azmon, join the Brook of Egypt, and end at the Sea.

Numbers 34:6

Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west.

Numbers 34:7

Your northern border will run from the Great Sea directly to Mount Hor,

Numbers 34:8

and from Mount Hor to Lebo-hamath, then extend to Zedad,

Numbers 34:9

continue to Ziphron, and end at Hazar-enan. This will be your boundary on the north.

Numbers 34:10

And your eastern border will run straight from Hazar-enan to Shepham,

Numbers 34:11

then go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Chinnereth.

Numbers 34:12

Then the border will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. This will be your land, defined by its borders on all sides.”

Numbers 34:13

So Moses commanded the Israelites, “Apportion this land by lot as an inheritance. The LORD has commanded that it be given to the nine and a half tribes.

Numbers 34:14

For the tribes of the Reubenites and Gadites, along with the half-tribe of Manasseh, have already received their inheritance.

Numbers 34:15

These two and a half tribes have received their inheritance across the Jordan from Jericho, toward the sunrise.”

Deuteronomy 32:8

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

Joshua 12:7

And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir (according to the allotments to the tribes of Israel, Joshua gave them as an inheritance

Joshua 12:8

the hill country, the foothills, the Arabah, the slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev—the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites):

Joshua 14:1

Now these are the portions that the Israelites inherited in the land of Canaan, as distributed by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of Israel.

Joshua 14:2

Their inheritance was assigned by lot for the nine and a half tribes, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.

Joshua 14:3

For Moses had given the inheritance east of the Jordan to the other two and a half tribes. But he granted no inheritance among them to the Levites.

Joshua 14:4

The descendants of Joseph became two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion of the land was given to the Levites, except for cities in which to live, along with pasturelands for their flocks and herds.

Joshua 14:5

So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they divided the land.

Joshua 14:6

Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about you and me.

Joshua 14:7

I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back to him an honest report.

Joshua 14:8

Although my brothers who went with me made the hearts of the people melt with fear, I remained loyal to the LORD my God.

Joshua 14:9

On that day Moses swore to me, saying, ‘Surely the land on which you have set foot will be an inheritance to you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.’

Joshua 14:10

Now behold, as the LORD promised, He has kept me alive these forty-five years since He spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old,

Joshua 14:11

still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. As my strength was then, so it is now for war, for going out, and for coming in.

Joshua 14:12

Now therefore give me this hill country that the LORD promised me on that day, for you yourself heard then that the Anakim were there, with great and fortified cities. Perhaps with the LORD’s help I will drive them out, as the LORD has spoken.”

Joshua 14:13

Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance.

Joshua 14:14

Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as an inheritance to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.

Joshua 14:15

(Hebron used to be called Kiriath-arba, after Arba, the greatest man among the Anakim.) Then the land had rest from war.

Genesis 13:10

And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

Genesis 20:1

Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,

Genesis 26:1

Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

Judges 16:1

One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.

Jeremiah 25:20

all the mixed tribes; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines: Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

Genesis 13:11

So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.

Genesis 14:2

went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

Genesis 18:20

Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,

Genesis 19:24

Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.

Genesis 19:25

Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.

Hosea 11:8

How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!