Quotes About Amorites

The Hittites and Amorites were therefore mingled together in the mountains of Palestine like the two races which ethnologists tell us go to form the modern Kelt.

It is clear, then, that the Amorites of Canaan belonged to the same white race as the Libyans of Northern Africa, and like them preferred the mountains to the hot plains and valleys below. The Libyans themselves belonged to a race which can be traced through the peninsula of Spain and the western side of France into the British Isles.

We must regard the Amorites as the earlier population, among a part of whom the Hittites in later days settled and intermarried.

The Jebusites ... belonged to one or other of these two great races; perhaps, indeed, to both (i.e., Amorites and Hittites).

12On that occasion, when the Lord routed the Amorites before the Israelites, Joshua addressed the Lord; he said in the presence of the Israelites: "Stand still, O sun, at Gibeon, O moon, in the Valley of Aijalon!" 13 And the sun stood still And the moon halted, While a nation wreaked judgment on its foes

But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

One would have supposed that the remembrance of the deluge would have been transmitted from father to son, and have perpetually deterred mankind from transgressing the will of their Maker; but so blinded were they, that in the time of Abraham, gross wickedness prevailed wherever colonies were planted, and the iniquity of the Amorites was great, though not yet full.

giant clans as listed below. Rephaim (Deut. 2:10-11, 20; 3:11) Zuzim, short for "Zamzummim" (Deut. 2:20) Emim (Deut. 2:10-11) Horites/Horim (Deut. 2:21-22) Amalekites (Numbers 13:28-29) Amorites (Amos 2:9-10)

the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

Then they turned back to invade En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.

In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”

And to you, as one who is above your brothers, I give the ridge of land that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”

The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”

From there they moved on and camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the wilderness that extends into the Amorite territory. Now the Arnon is the border between the Moabites and the Amorites.

Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.

Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.

Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.

So Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.

After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.

Now Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites,

So Moses gave to the Gadites, to the Reubenites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan—the land including its cities and the territory surrounding them.

The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it, and drove out the Amorites who were there.