Amorites

Amorites [E]

• Descendants of Canaan
  Genesis 10:15 Genesis 10:16 ; 1 Chronicles 1:13 1 Chronicles 1:14

• Were giants
  Amos 2:9

• Struck down by Chedorlaomer and rescued by Abraham
  Genesis 14

• Territory of
  Genesis 14:7 ; Numbers 13:29 ; 21:13 ; Deuteronomy 1:4 Deuteronomy 1:7 Deuteronomy 1:19 ; Deuteronomy 3:8 Deuteronomy 3:9 ; Joshua 5:1 ; 10:5 ; Joshua 12:2 Joshua 12:3 ; Judges 1:35 Judges 1:36 ; 11:22

• Given to descendants of Abraham
  Genesis 15:21 ; 48:22 ; Deuteronomy 1:20 ; 2:26-36 ; 7:1 ; Joshua 3:10 ; Judges 11:23 ; Amos 2:10

• Allotted to Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh
  Numbers 32:33-42 ; Joshua 13:15-21

• Conquest of
  Numbers 21:21-30 ; Joshua 10:11

• Chiefs of
  Joshua 13:21

• Wickedness of
  Genesis 15:16 ; 2 Kings 21:11 ; Ezra 9:1

• Idolatry of
  Judges 6:10 ; 1 Kings 21:26

• Judgments denounced against
  Exodus 23:24 ; 33:2 ; Exodus 34:10 Exodus 34:11 ; Deuteronomy 20:17 Deuteronomy 20:18

• Hornets sent among
  Joshua 24:12

• Not exterminated
  Judges 1:34-36 ; Judges 3:1-3 Judges 3:5-8 ; 1 Samuel 7:14 ; 2 Samuel 21:2 ; 1 Kings 9:20 1 Kings 9:21 ; 2 Chronicles 8:7

• Intermarry with Jews
  Ezra 9:1 Ezra 9:2 ; 10:18-44

• Kings of
  Joshua 10:3-26

[E] indicates this entry was also found in Easton's Bible Dictionary

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Bibliography Information

Nave, Orville J. "Entry for 'Amorites'". "Nave's Topical Bible". . 1896.