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1 Chronicles 1:13
And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Chronicler records a genealogy for Israel, listing the descendants of Ham’s son Canaan within a continuous lineage of nations. The words — יָלַד (ya.Lad) = he fathered; בְּכֹר (be.kho.R/o) = firstborn. The thread — Genesis 10:15 repeats this exact genealogical formula. Genesis 9:22 and Genesis 9:25 introduce Canaan as Ham’s son and record a curse upon him. Why it lands — The text lists tribal progenitors to establish historical lineage without moral evaluation. It requires the reader to trace how ancestral names correspond to later geopolitical groups.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,
Cross-references
- Genesis 9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
- Genesis 9:25 he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
- Genesis 10:15 And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
- Genesis 23:3 Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,
- Genesis 23:5 The Hittites replied to Abraham,
- Genesis 23:20 So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.
- Genesis 27:46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”
- Genesis 49:30 The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
- Exodus 23:28 I will send the hornet before you to drive the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.
- Joshua 9:1 Now 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)—