Jebusites
Son of Canaan. Named in scripture at Genesis 10:16.
What we know β and how we know it
Where in scripture
GenesisExodusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudges2 Samuel1 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahZechariahthe Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
Genesis 10:16
the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.β
Genesis 15:21
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.ββ
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 an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
Exodus 33:2
Observe that which I command you today. Behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Exodus 34:11
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.
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In their own words β 2 recorded sayings
βAnd the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the people of the land: and they said to David, You will not come in here, but the blind and the feeble-footed will keep you out; for they said, David will not be able to come in here.β β 2 Samuel 5:6
βAnd the people of Jebus said to David, You will not come in here. But still, David took the strong place of Zion, which is the town of David.β β 1 Chronicles 11:5
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