Amorite

Gender: Male

Years: -2304 - -787

Dictionary Text: Highlanders, or hillmen, the name given to the descendants of one of the sons of Canaan, called Amurra or Amurri in the Assyrian and Egyptian inscriptions. On the early Babylonian monuments all Syria, including Palestine, is known as “the land of the Amorites.” The southern slopes of the mountains of Judea are called the “mount of the Amorites”,,. They seem to have originally occupied the land stretching from the heights west of the Dead Sea to Hebron;, embracing “all Gilead and all Bashan”, with the Jordan valley on the east of the river, the land of the “two kings of the Amorites,” Sihon and Og;;. The five kings of the Amorites were defeated with great slaughter by Joshua. They were again defeated at the waters of Merom by Joshua, who smote them till there were none remaining. It is mentioned as a surprising circumstance that in the days of Samuel there was peace between them and the Israelites. The discrepancy supposed to exist between and is explained by the circumstance that the terms “Amorites” and “Amalekites” are used synonymously for the “Canaanites.” In the same way we explain the fact that the “Hivites” of are the “Amorites” of 48:22. Comp.; with; also with. The Amorites were warlike mountaineers. They are represented on the Egyptian monuments with fair skins, light hair, blue eyes, aquiline noses, and pointed beards. They are supposed to have been men of great stature; their king, Og, is described by Moses as the last “of the remnant of the giants”. Both Sihon and Og were independent kings. Only one word of the Amorite language survives, “Shenir,” the name they gave to Mount Hermon.

Family Members

• Father: Canaan
• Siblings:
  • Hivite
  • Girgasite
  • Arvadite
  • Sinite
  • Zemarite
  • Hamathite
  • Heth
  • Zidon
  • Jebusite
  • Arkite

Verses

• Amos 2:9: Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
• Genesis 10:16: And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
• 1 Chronicles 1:14: The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
• Amos 2:10: Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.