Bible Strands
1 Chronicles 1:14
the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator continues a genealogical catalog of Canaan’s descendants following the mention of Sidon and the Hittites. This verse appears in a structured ancestral record tracing Israel’s lineage from Adam.
The words — The Hebrew uses הַיְבוּסִי (ha-yĕḇûsî), הָאֱמֹרִי (hā-ʾĕmôrî), and הַגִּרְגַּשִׁי (haggirgāšî), each marked by the definite article and the object connector וְאֶת (we-ʾeṯ) meaning “and [them].” These terms function strictly as grammatical objects in a continuous list.
The thread — This exact sequence of nations appears in Genesis 15:21 as part of the ancestral land promise and reappears in Joshua 3:10 as groups designated for displacement. The same triad anchors the territorial boundaries and conquest mandates in the Pentateuch and Joshua.
Why it lands — The text simply enumerates specific Canaanite populations without commentary, requiring the reader to track how these named groups fit into the broader genealogical and territorial framework. It demands precise attention to the naming of nations that will later occupy the promised land.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
Cross-references
- Genesis 15:21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
- Joshua 3:10 He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
- Genesis 48:22 And to you, as one who is above your brothers, I give the ridge of land that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”
- Exodus 33:2 And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
- Exodus 34:11 Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
- Numbers 21:21 Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
- 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 larger and stronger than you—
- Deuteronomy 20:17 For you must devote them to complete destruction—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you,
- Joshua 24:15 But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”
- Judges 1:21 The Benjamites, however, failed to drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the Benjamites.