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God instructed the Israelites to destroy these seven nations upon entering Canaan. [1] [2] The meaning and implications of these verses in historical contexts was discussed in later commentary. The seven nations are all descendants of Canaan, son of Ham and grandson of Noah, from whom they derive their collective name Canaanites.
Canaan [i] [1] [2] was a Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC.Canaan had significant geopolitical importance in the Late Bronze Age Amarna Period (14th century BC) as the area where the spheres of interest of the Egyptian, Hittite, Mitanni, and Assyrian Empires converged or overlapped.
The Quran (7th century CE) states that the people of Moses were split into twelve tribes. Surah 7 verse 160 says: "We split them up into twelve tribal communities, and We revealed to Moses, when his people asked him for water, [saying], 'Strike the rock with your cane,' whereat twelve fountains gushed forth from it. Every tribe came to know its ...
Locations of Canaan's descendants. According to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 (verses 15–19), Canaan was the ancestor of the tribes who originally occupied the ancient Land of Canaan: all the territory from Sidon or Hamath in the north to Gaza in the southwest and Lasha in the southeast.
Map of the twelve tribes of Israel before the move of Dan to the north, based on the Book of Joshua. The Israelites [a] were a Hebrew-speaking ethnoreligious group [3] [4] consisting of tribes that inhabited much of Canaan during the Iron Age. [5] [6] [7]
Dan was the last tribe to receive its territorial inheritance. [7] [8] The land originally allocated to Dan was a small enclave in the central coastal area of Canaan, between Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim and the Philistines. [9] To the north the territory of Dan abutted Joppa, the modern Jaffa.
Since then, intensive surveys have examined the traditional territories of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh. These surveys have revealed the sudden emergence of a new culture contrasting with the Philistine and Canaanite societies existing in Canaan in the Iron Age. [32]
The Tribe of Ephraim joined the new kingdom with Saul as the first king. The widely accepted date for Saul's reign is approximately 1025–1005 BCE. Some scholars dispute this date range and place Saul later, perhaps as late as "the second half of the tenth century B.C.E." [7]