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Judges 3:5

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Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:

KJV

And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:

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This verse in Judges 3

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites

on Judges 3:5-6

Six nations are named here where Deuteronomy 7:1 named seven, the Girgashites being the one absent from the list. Verse 6 is Deuteronomy 7:3 carried out clause by clause, thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. The reason attached to that law at Deuteronomy 7:4 is that they will turn away thy son from following me, and the last words of verse 6 report that outcome in four words, and served their gods.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

It is mentioned in the close of the foregoing chapter as an act of God's justice, that he let them remain for Israel's correction. But here another construction is put upon it, and it appears to have been an act of God's wisdom, that he let them remain for Israel's real advantage, that those who had not known the wars of Canaan might learn war,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites--The two peoples by degrees came to be on habits of intercourse. Reciprocal alliances were formed by marriage till the Israelites, relaxing the austerity of their principles, showed a growing conformity to the manners and worship of their idolatrous neighbors.

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The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּבְנֵ֣יand [the] people of

    uveneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • יָשְׁב֖וּthey dwelt

    yashevuH3427 →1079 times

  • בְּקֶ֣רֶבin [the] midst of

    bekerevH7130 →227 times

  • הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֑יthe Canaanite[s]

    hakenaaniH3669 →73 times

  • הַחִתִּ֤יthe Hittite[s]

    hachitiH2850 →

  • וְהָֽאֱמֹרִי֙and the Amorite[s]

    vehaemoriH567 →87 times

  • וְהַפְּרִזִּ֔יand the Perizzite[s]

    vehapperiziH6522 →23 times

  • וְהַחִוִּ֖יand the Hivite[s]

    vehachiviH2340 →

  • וְהַיְבוּסִֽי׃and the Jebusite[s]

    vehayvusiH2983 →41 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

10 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Psalms 106:34–38They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,4 worksExodus 3:8I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.3 worksGenesis 10:15–18And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,3 worksExodus 3:17And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’3 worksDeuteronomy 7:1When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—2 worksNehemiah 9:8You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.2 works
The other 4 cross-references, with their words ▾
Joshua 9:1Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)—2 worksJudges 1:29–32Ephraim also failed to drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer; so the Canaanites continued to dwell among them in Gezer.2 worksGenesis 15:19–21the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,2 worksJoshua 11:3to the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, and Jebusites in the hill country; and to the Hivites at the foot of Hermon in the land of Mizpah.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Exodus 3:8

    I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 50:24

      Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac,…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Genesis 15:18–21

      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—

    • Exodus 3:17

      And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

    • Exodus 13:5

      And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and…

    • Deuteronomy 1:25

      They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 7:1

    When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 31:3

      The LORD your God Himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will dispossess them. Joshua will cross ahead of you, as the LORD has said.

    • Acts 13:19

      And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.

    • Deuteronomy 4:38

      to drive out before you nations greater and mightier than you, and to bring you into their land and give it to you for your inheritance, as it is this day.

Where this verse is studied

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About Judges

The Death of Samson, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Death of Samson, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Judges: the study guide →Read Judges 3 →

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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