Question: Can you tell me about the people of Canaan? Where did they live and how long ago did they exist?
Google: The data suggest that the Canaanites descended from a mixture of earlier local Neolithic populations and populations related to Chalcolithic Iran and/or the Bronze Age Caucasus.
http://www.revelationsmessage.co.uk/Canaanites%20and%20Semites.htm
Question: What is the difference between Canaanites and Semites?
Google: The Canaanites were the earliest inhabitants of Lebanon according to written historical records. They were called Sidonians in the Bible. Sidon was one of their cities. Artefacts unearthed at Byblos have been dated to 5000 B.C. They were produced by Stone Age farmers and fishermen.
What tribes made up the Canaanites?
· Phoenician city states.
· Phoenicians.
· Philistines.
· Israelites.
· Moab. Ammon. Tjeker. Geshur. Edom.
· What bloodline did the Canaanites come from?
According to the results, Canaanite ancestry is a mix of indigenous populations who settled the Levant (the region encompassing much of modern Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories) around 10,000 years ago, and migrants who arrived from the east between 6,600 and 3,550 years ago.
How many Canaanite tribes were there?
The seven nations are all descendants of Canaan, son of Ham and grandson of Noah, from whom they derive their collective name Canaanites.
Who are the descendants of the Canaanites today?
"The present-day Lebanese are likely to be direct descendants of the Canaanites, but they have in addition a small proportion of Eurasian ancestry that may have arrived via conquests by distant populations such as the Assyrians, Persians, or Macedonians."
Thousands of years ago, the Canaanite people lived in a part of the world we now recognize as Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan, establishing a culture that became influential in the Middle East and beyond. The Canaanites created the first alphabet, established colonies throughout the Mediterranean, and were mentioned many times in the Bible. But who were they and what ultimately happened to them?
Were they annihilated like the Bible says?
"We found that the Canaanites were a mixture of local people who settled in farming villages during the Neolithic period and eastern migrants who arrived in the region about 5,000 years ago," said Marc Haber of The Welcome Trust Sanger Institute in the United Kingdom. "The present-day Lebanese are likely to be direct descendants of the Canaanites, but they have in addition a small proportion of Eurasian ancestry that may have arrived via conquests by distant populations such as the Assyrians, Persians, or Macedonians".
The researchers estimate that new Eurasian people mixed with the Canaanite population about 3,800 to 2,200 years ago at a time when there were many conquests of the region from outside. Despite all that moving around, the Lebanese derive most of their ancestry from a Canaanite-related population, they report, suggesting that there has been substantial genetic continuity in the region since at least the Bronze Age -- a conclusion that agrees with the archaeological record.
The findings highlight the utility of genetic studies for elucidating the history of people like the Canaanites, who left few written records themselves.
Wikipedia: The name "Canaan" appears throughout the Bible, where it corresponds to "the Levant", in particular to the areas of the Southern Levant that provide the main settings of the narratives of the Bible: the Land of Israel, Philistia, and Phoenicia, among others.
The word Canaanites serves as an ethnic catch-all term covering various indigenous populations—both settled and nomadic-pastoral groups—throughout the regions of the southern Levant or Canaan.[3] It is by far the most frequently used ethnic term in the Bible.[4] The Book of Joshua includes Canaanites in a list of nations to exterminate,[5] and Scripture elsewhere portrays them as a group which the Israelites had annihilated.[6][7] Biblical scholar Mark Smith notes that archaeological data suggests "that the Israelite culture largely overlapped with and derived from Canaanite culture... In short, Israelite culture was largely Canaanite in nature."[8]: 13–14 [9][10] The name "Canaanites" is attested, many centuries later, as the endonym of the people later known to the Ancient Greeks from c. 500 BC as Phoenicians,[6] and after the emigration of some Canaanite-speakers to Carthage (founded in the 9th century BC), was also used as a self-designation by the Punics (as "Chanani") of North Africa during Late Antiquity.
Question: Who considered the Ancient Hebrews to be Canaanites?
There is the verse in Zech. 14:21, which indicates that “in that day there shall no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts”!
As that is a prophecy related to the future Millennial, it begs the question as to who these people are.
There is opinion in the world that during the rebellion in the Kingdom of Israel after the death of Solomon, and during the opposing tribal division when the separation of the northern kingdom produced the building of a separate Temple/Temples, and a separate priesthood to Jerusalem, that the “priesthood” became polluted by Canaanites (who at the time were considered decedents of Nephilim)!
Whether that is the case is open to question; but what is quite possible is what is recorded and researched in the Links below.
See: Changes Made To The Old Testament (Study)
http://www.revelationsmessage.co.uk/Canaanite%20Entity.htm
Question: Did any Canaanites survive Joshua’s conquest of Jericho and other cities in Canaan?
A great deal depends here on who the Canaanites were.
Some are of the opinion that they were descended from the Nephilim, because there was at least one further eruption after the flood of Noah, Gen. 6:4!
As is shown in the Bible, Saul, and later King David were ordered by God to completely annihilate the Nephilim peoples, which has given so much pain to people when reading the Old Testament, but they had not taken the reason for such action into account as referring to the Promise of God re. the “seed of the woman”, which would have corrupted that Seed, and made impossible the Salvation of Mankind, re. The Man Christ Jesus!
So; IMO they were the “Canaanites”, and they were annihilated before they could nullify the Planned Salvation of Almighty God!
See: Nephilim Origin! (Study)
Question: What happened to all of the Nephilim (giants) after Noah’s flood? Did they ever exist again or was it just one-time event in human history?
Discussions are conducted occasionally, however quite infrequently, on the subject of Nephilim. Usually the subject is raised by a new Christian (Christ-One), after coming across the subject of giants in Scripture, and seeing the references in Genesis 6:2-4, and also others in the Old Testament, (OT).
In Gen.15, Abram is told by Almighty God the lands He will give to him and his seed. Some or all of the people named in verses 18 to 21 are considered Nephilim and had to be displaced by Israel at a later date, when they took possession of those lands under the leadership of Joshua.
To treat the subject seriously, three main questions need to be addressed.
1) Who were they?
2) How and why were they produced?
3) Are they still on Earth?
Who were/are they?
In the earliest reference to them, and using only Christ Authenticated Scripture, in Gen. 6:2, "That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them women of all that they chose".
The statement, "sons of God", has been, and is much discussed, as to meaning. As on occasions the term "angels" are interchangeable with "sons", and the original Hebrew can be either word, according to context. In the case of Gen. 6:2, the Septuagint translates "angels", (the PshittA translates "sons of God" looked on the "daughters of human beings", see: Ancient Aramaic Manuscripts, Pshitta O and A:). This states that the "sons of God" were not human!
In the case of Adam, he is described as "a son of God", (Luke 3:38); (see Companion Bible, page 1441); so by implication all angels are created beings, by Almighty God!
This means that either in the form of angels, or other form, they took human women, and had children by them! The implications of this, is that they could procreate at will, after they became Satan’s servants; and did so! The fact of their free-will, is borne out by the accounts in Revelation, showing that one third of all angels follow Satan (Rev. 12:4)!
See:
Nephilim; (Study)
Nephilim, who were they, and why? (Study)
Nephilim Origin! (Comment)
Nephilim and Noah's Ark (Study)
Nephilim and Israelites! (Comment)
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