15 ¶ And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and
Heth, 16 And the Jebusite, and the
Amorite, and the Girgasite, 17 And the
Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, 18
And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward
were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. 19 And the border of the Canaanites was from
Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and
Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha. 20 These are the sons of Ham, after their
families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
As Canaan is of particular noteworthiness due to the curse
on him and the way it plays out in Biblical history this passage is devoted to
him. We can see how Israel interacted with some of these families and tribes in
the Bible.
Sidon is also called Zidon, both translated from the same
word.
1Chronicles
1:13 And Canaan begat Zidon his
firstborn…
Sidon/Zidon is known as a city of Phoenicia, whose merchants
will spread the alphabet from what is called Proto-Canaanite script, that plays
such a part in the Exodus, as in God giving His Law, creating the writing that
contrasted with the pictograms of hieroglyphics and cuneiform writing that
dominated the ancient world. The basic units of writing, the letters, become
symbols for ideas rather than pictures representing things to be worshipped as
idols. ‘A’, instead of a symbol for a bull or an ox, is Aleph in Hebrew and
Alpha in Greek, and ‘A’ for modern purposes. A good study for this is Marc A.
Ouaknin’s Mysteries of the Alphabet.
The Phoenicians spread the alphabet, and their pernicious
religious practices, probably started during their sojourn in Babel or Babylon,
around the world, trading from England to Somalia to Australia, and perhaps
even the Americas based on some limited archaeological evidence of Phoenician
coins and other things. Early American Christians believed that the Native Americans
of the east coast, at least, were descendants of Canaanites, as some of them
wrote.
Isaiah
23:2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the
isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have
replenished.
A descendant of Heth is a Hittite.
Genesis 23:10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth:
and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of
Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,
2Samuel
11:3 And David sent and enquired after
the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife
of Uriah the Hittite?
The Jebusites would eventually inhabit Jerusalem.
Joshua
15:63 As for the Jebusites the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but
the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.
The Canaanites, in developing their religion that included
temple prostitutes called whores, depending on the context, for women and
sodomites for men, in practicing bestiality, child sacrifice, and other
abominations, will have been condemned in God’s foresight as inheritors of their
ancestor, Ham’s, notorious character.
Deuteronomy
23:17 There shall be no whore of the
daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. 18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or
the price of a dog [slang for a homosexual male prostitute even today], into the
house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto
the LORD thy God.
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