Hivites
Son of Canaan. Named in scripture at Genesis 10:17.
What we know — and how we know it
Where in scripture
GenesisExodusDeuteronomyJoshuaJudges2 Samuel1 Kings1 Chronicles2 Chroniclesthe Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
Genesis 10:17
Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
Genesis 34:2
Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;
Genesis 36:2
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
It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.
Exodus 13:5
For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.
Exodus 23:23
I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
Exodus 23:28
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.
