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Jebusites

Jebusites

Son of Canaan. Named in scripture at Genesis 10:16.

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BibleSon of Canaan.
Genesis 10:16

Where in scripture

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the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

Genesis 10:16

the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”

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.”’

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.

Genesis 10:16Genesis 15:21Exodus 3:8Exodus 3:17Exodus 13:5Exodus 23:23Exodus 33:2Exodus 34:11Numbers 13:29Deuteronomy 7:1Deuteronomy 20:17Joshua 3:10Joshua 9:1Joshua 11:3Joshua 12:8Joshua 15:63Joshua 18:16Joshua 24:11Judges 1:21Judges 3:5Judges 19:112 Samuel 5:62 Samuel 5:82 Samuel 24:16 …and 11 more mentions

Family

In their own words β€” 2 recorded sayings

β€œAnd 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€” 2 Samuel 5:6
β€œAnd 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€” 1 Chronicles 11:5

Speaker attribution: Clear Bible MACULA (CC BY 4.0). Wording: Bible in Basic English (public domain).