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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Amorite
One of the peoples in Canaan before Israel came, traced in Genesis 10 to a son of Canaan, and sometimes used loosely for everyone in the hill country. Sihon and Og ruled an Amorite kingdom east of the Jordan that fell to Israel under Moses. Outside the Bible they are the Amurru of Mesopotamian texts, the people whose dynasty produced Hammurabi of Babylon.
One of the peoples in Canaan before Israel came, traced in Genesis 10 to a son of Canaan, and sometimes used loosely for everyone in the hill country. Sihon and Og ruled an Amorite kingdom east of the Jordan that fell to Israel under Moses. Outside the Bible they are the Amurru of Mesopotamian texts, the people whose dynasty produced Hammurabi of Babylon.
The Amorites were one of the peoples living in Canaan before Israel's conquest, traditionally traced to a son of Canaan in Genesis 10, and the Old Testament sometimes uses their name loosely for the hill country's inhabitants in general. A specific Amorite kingdom east of the Jordan, ruled by Sihon and Og, fell to Israel under Moses and became the basis for Reuben and Gad's territory in Numbers 21. Outside the Bible, Amorites, called Amurru in Mesopotamian texts, were a real West Semitic people who migrated into Mesopotamia in the early second millennium BC and founded several dynasties there, including the one that produced Hammurabi of Babylon. Their language and personal names are well documented in cuneiform archives from Mari and elsewhere.
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- Genesis 10:16
- Genesis 14:7
- Genesis 14:13
- Genesis 15:16
- Genesis 15:21
- Genesis 48:22
- Exodus 3:8
- Exodus 3:17
- Exodus 13:5
- Exodus 23:23
- Exodus 33:2
- Exodus 34:11
- Numbers 13:29
- Numbers 21:13
- Numbers 21:21
- Numbers 21:25
- Numbers 21:26
- Numbers 21:29
- Numbers 21:31
- Numbers 21:32
- Numbers 21:34
- Numbers 22:2
- Numbers 32:33
- Numbers 32:39
- Deuteronomy 1:4
- Deuteronomy 1:7
- Deuteronomy 1:19
- Deuteronomy 1:20
- Deuteronomy 1:27
- Deuteronomy 1:44
- Deuteronomy 2:24
- Deuteronomy 3:2
- Deuteronomy 3:8
- Deuteronomy 3:9
- Deuteronomy 4:46
- Deuteronomy 4:47
- Deuteronomy 7:1
- Deuteronomy 20:17
- Deuteronomy 31:4
- Joshua 2:10
- Joshua 3:10
- Joshua 5:1
- Joshua 7:7
- Joshua 9:1
- Joshua 9:10
- Joshua 10:5
- Joshua 10:6
- Joshua 10:12
- Joshua 11:3
- Joshua 12:2
- Joshua 12:8
- Joshua 13:4
- Joshua 13:10
- Joshua 13:21
- Joshua 24:8
- Joshua 24:11
- Joshua 24:12
- Joshua 24:15
- Joshua 24:18
- Judges 1:34
- Judges 1:35
- Judges 1:36
- Judges 3:5
- Judges 6:10
- Judges 10:8
- Judges 10:11
- Judges 11:19
- Judges 11:21
- Judges 11:22
- Judges 11:23
- 1 Samuel 7:14
- 2 Samuel 21:2
- 1 Kings 4:19
- 1 Kings 9:20
- 1 Kings 21:26
- 2 Kings 21:11
- 1 Chronicles 1:14
- 2 Chronicles 8:7
- Ezra 9:1
- Nehemiah 9:8
- Psalm 135:11
- Psalm 136:19
- Ezekiel 16:3
- Ezekiel 16:45
- Amos 2:9
- Amos 2:10
