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• Arad

  Arad was a Canaanite city in the Negev, the arid region south of Judah, mentioned in the Old Testament. The Book of Numbers records that its king attacked Israel during the wilderness journey.

• Gibeon

  Gibeon was a Canaanite city north of Jerusalem in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin. It was there that the inhabitants deceived Joshua into making a treaty, there that Solomon asked for wisdom in a dream, and there that the tabernacle and the bronze altar were once located.

• Debir

  Debir was a Canaanite city in the hill country of Judah. Its former names were Kirjath-sepher and Kirjath-sannah, and it is known as the city captured by Othniel, a member of Caleb's family.

• Taanach

  Taanach was a Canaanite city on the southern edge of the Jezreel Valley, near Megiddo. In Joshua and Judges it appears as a city of the tribe of Manasseh and as a battlefield in the Song of Deborah.

• Gezer

  Gezer was a Canaanite city on the route between the hill country of Judah and the coastal plain. It appears in the account of Joshua's conquest and in the record of Solomon's building projects.

• Beth-shan

  Beth-shan was a Canaanite city located where the Jezreel Valley meets the Jordan Valley. It is known as the place where the Philistines fastened the body of Saul to the city wall, and in New Testament times it was one of the cities of the Decapolis.

• Ai (Place)

  Ai was a Canaanite city east of Bethel. It is known from the book of Joshua as the place where Israel suffered its first defeat after the fall of Jericho and which it then captured in a second attack.

• Adoni-bezek

  Adoni-bezek was a Canaanite king of Bezek who appears in Judges 1. Defeated by the tribes of Judah and Simeon, he had his thumbs and great toes cut off, and he confessed that God had repaid him for what he had done to other kings.

• Adullam

  Adullam was a Canaanite and later Judahite town in the lowland (the low hill country, or Shephelah) of Judah. It is best known as the site of the "cave of Adullam," where David hid from Saul.

• Asherah

  Asherah is the name of a Canaanite goddess mentioned in the Old Testament. The word also refers to the wooden pole or carved image used in her worship. It often serves as a representative term for Israel's idolatry.

• Ashtoreth

  Ashtoreth (also Ashtaroth) is the name of a Canaanite and Sidonian goddess mentioned in the Old Testament. Usually named alongside Baal, she stands as a representative term for the foreign gods Israel served after forsaking the LORD.

• Song of Deborah

  The Song of Deborah is a victory song recorded in Judges 5. Deborah, a prophetess and judge, sang it to God together with Barak after they defeated the army of the Canaanite commander Sisera.

• Matthew 15

  Matthew 15 recounts the dispute over handwashing and the tradition of the elders, the faith of a Canaanite woman from the region of Tyre and Sidon, healings beside the Sea of Galilee, and the feeding of the four thousand.

• Ai

  Ai was a town in the central hill country of Canaan, east of Bethel. It is best known from Joshua 7–8 as the place where Israel was first defeated because of Achan's sin and then captured the city in a second battle.

• Barak

  Barak was an Israelite military leader in the period of the judges who, at the summons of the prophetess Deborah, defeated Sisera, the commander of the army of the Canaanite king Jabin. He appears in Judges 4–5 and is named among the people of faith in Hebrews 11.

• Genesis 38

  Genesis 38 interrupts the Joseph narrative with the story of Judah and his daughter-in-law Tamar. It recounts the conflict over continuing a family line and records the birth of the twins Perez and Zerah.

• Onan

  Onan was the second son of Judah, the son of Jacob. He refused the duty of raising up offspring for his deceased elder brother Er through his brother's widow, Tamar, and was slain by the LORD (Genesis 38).

• Er (son of Judah)

  Er was the firstborn son of Judah, the son of Jacob. Genesis 38 records that he married Tamar but, being "wicked in the sight of the LORD," died without children.

• Hazor

  Hazor was a major Canaanite city north of the Sea of Galilee. It appears in Scripture in connection with Joshua's northern conquest, the war in the time of Deborah, and Solomon's building of cities.

• Waters of Merom

  The waters of Merom are the site where, according to Joshua 11, a northern Canaanite coalition led by Jabin king of Hazor encamped and was defeated in a surprise attack by Joshua. This battle led to the conquest of northern Canaan.