15And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
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Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan;(this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:) …
And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: …
And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-20)Observe here, 1. The account of the posterity of Canaan, of the families and nations that descended from him, and of the land they possessed, is more particular than of any other in this chapter, because these were the nations that were to be subdued before Israel, and their land was in process of time to become the holy land, Immanuel’s land ; and this God had an eye to when, in the mean time, he…
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