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The Welcome of Strangers in the Land of Canaan

In the ancient epoch, when the promises of the Almighty were still echoing across the barren plains and fertile valleys, and the descendants of Abraham began to take root in the land of Canaan, the welcoming of strangers was not merely a societal custom, but a sacred covenant, woven into the very fabric of their identity. For they, too, had once be...

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Lodging by the Well: Where Journeys Paused

And it came to pass in the days when men journeyed by foot and by beast of burden, that the well was as a beacon in the wilderness—a place of rest, of gathering, and of divine encounter. For along the dusty paths and in the heat of the noonday sun, the wells of the land became lodgings of a kind, where the weary paused and the thirsty were made gla...

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Canaan Scripture - Genesis 46:12

And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul....

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Canaan in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(Ca'nan) (low, flat). 1. The fourth son of Ham, Ge 10:6; 1Ch 1:8 the progenitor of the Phoenicians [ZIDON], and of the various nations who before the Israelite conquest people the seacoast of Israel, and generally the while of the country westward of the Jordan. Ge 10:13; 1Ch 1:13 (B.C. 2347.) 2. The name "Canaan" is sometimes employed for t...

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Canaan Scripture - Genesis 47:13

And [there was] no bread in all the land; for the famine [was] very sore, so that the land of Egypt and [all] the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine....

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Canaan in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(1.) The fourth son of Ham (Gen. 10:6). His descendants were under a curse in consequence of the transgression of his father (9:22-27). His eldest son, Zidon, was the father of the Sidonians and Phoenicians. He had eleven sons, who were the founders of as many tribes (10:15-18). (2.) The country which derived its name from the preceding. ...

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Canaan Scripture - Genesis 47:14

And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house....

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Canaan in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

From Ham came four main races; Cush (Ethiopia), Mizraim (Egypt), Phut (Nubia), and Canaan (originally before Abraham extending from Hamath in the N. to Gaza in the S.), comprising six chief tribes, the Hittites, Hivites, Amorites, Jebusites, Perizzites, and Girgashites; to which the Canaanites (in the narrow sense) being added make up the mys...

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Canaan Scripture - Joshua 22:10

And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that [are] in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to....

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Canaan in Hitchcock's Bible Names

merchant; trader; or that humbles and subdues...

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