From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
The Amorite king Sihon had taken Moab's land.
thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.
On the Amorites, see Amorite.
Against the Amorites he throws "great stones from heaven" (Joshua 10:11).
The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (Judges 3:5).
"And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar."
"And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram."
An aquiline people of the Libyo-Amorite type, who held out longest
It is also called by different names among various local groups: "Sirion" by the Sidonians and "Senir" by the Amorites.
Mount Hermon served as a symbolic landmark for the Amorites, a Semitic people that occupied parts of the Levant.
In ancient Amorite traditions, it was known as Senir, and it was often associated with their northernmost territory.
The Amorites and other cultures perceived mountains as the dwelling places of their gods, and Hermon held a key role as a symbol of both physical and metaphysical boundaries.
Skiba explores the genealogies of Noah’s sons and their descendants, noting that giants appeared in Canaan’s lineage (Amorites, Hittites) and possibly in the line of Cush (through Nimrod).
In particular, he points to Amos 2:9, which describes the Amorites as being as tall as cedar trees, a reference that he interprets as evidence of their enormous stature.
Rob Skiba discusses the lineage of Noah's descendants and their connection to giants, emphasizing that Canaan's descendants, specifically the Amorites, are associated with giants.
According to biblical records, the Amorites are mentioned over 80 times in the Bible, described as being of great size, comparable to cedar trees.
Amorites eventually overtook the Sumerians, leading to the absorption of their elites into the Amorite culture, marking the end of Sumerians as a distinct civilization.
Summary: The Amorites ruled much of the Levant and Mesopotamia from the 21st to the 16th century BCE.
Rephaim: A race of giants named in several books, such as Deuteronomy, possibly from the time of the early Canaanites and Amorites.
Kenizzites, Kadmonites: Named in Genesis 15:19 among the peoples living in the land promised to Abraham, likely around the time of the Amorites.
There is the El of the Amorites, and the elohim of your ancestors when they lived in Mesopotamia.
The Amorites were an ancient people known both from history and from the Bible.
Amos describes the Amorite as tall as cedars, and Og, king of Bashan, was also an Amorite king (Deuteronomy 3:8).
Amos compares the Amorite to cedars and oaks.
Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
The Amorites were an ancient Semitic-speaking people who appeared in western Mesopotamia (modern Syria and Iraq) at the end of the third millennium BCE.
The Amorites first lived in the Syrian desert.
The best-known Amorite contribution to history is the founding of the first Babylonian Empire by Amorite dynasties.
The most notable Amorite ruler was Hammurabi (reigned c.
The Amorites strongly shaped the culture and politics of Mesopotamia.
The Amorites spoke a Semitic language, but it has not survived in extensive written records.
After Hammurabi and his successors, the power of the Amorite dynasties began to decline.
Over time the Amorites were absorbed into the cultures and societies of Mesopotamia and the Near East.
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
In Exodus 3:8 and 3:17, the land promised to the Israelites, a land "flowing with milk and honey," includes the land of the Amorites among other peoples.
The Amorites live in the mountains, while the Amalekites live in the south.
The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
Numbers 21:21-31 tells of Israel's conflict with Sihon, king of the Amorites.
Moses recalls how the Amorites of the mountain drove the Israelites back.
And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.
Deuteronomy 3:2-11 describes the defeat of Og, king of Bashan, one of the last of the Rephaim, who is described as an Amorite king.
In Joshua 10:5-6 and 10:12-14, the five Amorite kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish and Eglon join forces against Gibeon, whose people had made peace with Israel.
Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it.
In Judges 1:34-36, the Amorites force the tribe of Dan into the mountains and do not let them come down to the valley.
In Ezekiel 16:3 and 16:45, Jerusalem is described in a metaphor: its father was an Amorite and its mother a Hittite.
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
In Amos 2:9-10, God reminds Israel that he destroyed the Amorites, who were as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks, before Israel took the land of Canaan.
He adds that the Amorites may also have been giants, citing Amos 2:9 and Og, an Amorite king (Deuteronomy 3:8).
These groups, including the Amalekites, the Amorites and the Anakim, were still in the land in Joshua's time (Numbers 13:29, 33).
8So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
17And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as Yahweh has commanded you.”
1Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.2The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.3And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.4And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.5By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.6And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.7And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.8And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.11Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,12And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.13And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,14And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.15And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,16And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,17And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,18And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.19And 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.20These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.21Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.22The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.23And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.24And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.25And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.26And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazar-maveth, and Jerah,27And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,28And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,29And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.30And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.31These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.32These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.