Amorites
Son of Canaan. Named in scripture at Genesis 10:16.
What we know — and how we know it
Where in scripture
GenesisExodusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudges1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahPsalmsEzekielAmosthe Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
Genesis 10:16
They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.
Genesis 14:7
One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. At that time, he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and they were allies of Abram.
Genesis 14:13
In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
Genesis 15:16
the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
Genesis 15:21
Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”
Genesis 48:22
I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Exodus 3:8
and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’
Exodus 3:17
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.