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Judges 3:5
Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records Israel’s ongoing settlement pattern immediately after the Lord’s declaration to leave specific Canaanite nations to test the people.
The words — The Hebrew verb יָשְׁב֖וּ (ya.she.Vu) means “they dwelt,” paired with בְּ/קֶ֣רֶב (be./Ke.rev), literally “in the midst of,” describing their physical proximity to the listed groups.
The thread — This cohabitation fulfills the pattern of unexecuted judgment noted in Psalms 106:34 and traces the ethnic origins of the Canaanite and Hittite clans in Genesis 10:15, contrasting with the original promise of land in Exodus 3:8.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that remaining in occupied territory without complete separation produces the intermarriage and idolatry detailed in Judges 3:6.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
Cross-references
- Psalms 106:34 They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,
- Genesis 10:15 And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
- 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.’
- Genesis 15:19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
- 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—
- 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)—
- Judges 1:29 Ephraim also failed to drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer; so the Canaanites continued to dwell among them in Gezer.
- Nehemiah 9:8 You 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.