1 Chronicles 1:15

the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

Berean Standard Bible

Study note

Setting — The Chronicler narrates the genealogical record of Canaan’s descendants, cataloging the nations inhabiting the land before Israel’s arrival.

The words — The text lists הַ/חִוִּ֥י (ha-chi.Vi, “the Hivite”), הַֽ/עַרְקִ֖י (ha-'ar.Ki, “the Arkite”), and הַ/סִּינִֽי (ha-si.Ni, “the Sinite”), each prefixed by וְ/אֶת־ (ve-'Et, “and [the]”) to mark them as direct objects in a sequential list.

The thread — The Hivites appear in Exodus 3:8, Exodus 3:17, and Exodus 13:5 as part of the indigenous population of the territory God promises to give Israel. The Arkites and Sinites remain unmentioned in those passages and this verse functions solely as a genealogical marker.

Why it lands — It establishes the pre-existing ethnic landscape of Canaan, requiring the reader to acknowledge that the conquest will involve displacing specific, named peoples rather than an empty territory.

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The Hebrew words

וְאֶת־ve./'Etand/ <obj.>הַחִוִּ֥יha./chi.Vithe/ Hivite[s]וְאֶת־ve./'Etand/ <obj.>הַֽעַרְקִ֖יha./'ar.Kithe/ Arkite[s]וְאֶת־ve./'Etand/ <obj.>הַסִּינִֽי׃ha./si.Nithe/ Sinite[s]

King James Version

And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

Cross-references

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 honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
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 honey—you shall keep this service in this month.
1 Kings 9:20 As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—