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Amorites Research Paper

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The Amorites were an ancient Semitic-speaking people from ancient Syria who also occupied large parts of southern Mesopotamia from the 21st century BC to the end of the 17th century BC, where they established several outstanding city states in existing locations, noticeably Babylon which was raised from a small administrative town to an independent state and major city. The term Amurru in Akkadian and Sumerian texts refers to them, as well as to their principal idol. The term Amorites is used in the Bible to refer to certain highland mountaineers who settled in the land of Canaan, described in Genesis 10:16 as descendants of Canaan, son of Ham. They are described as a powerful people of great stature "like the height of the cedars," (Amos 2:9) who had occupied the land east and west of the Jordan. …show more content…

Nave, who wrote the original Nave's Topical Bible to refer to the Amorites as "giants."The Amorite king, Og, was illustrated as the last "of the remnant of the Rephaim" (Deut. 3:11). The terms Amorite and Canaanite seem to be used more or less interchangeably, Canaan being more basic and Amorite a specific component among the Canaanites who inhabited the land. The Biblical Amorites seem to have originally occupied the region expanding from the heights west of the Dead Sea (Gen. 14:7) to Hebron (13:8; Deut. 3:8; 4:46-48), embracing "all Gilead and all Bashan" (Deut. 3:10), with the Jordan valley on the east of the river (4:49), the land of the "two kings of the Amorites," Sihon and Og (Deut. 31:4; Josh. 2:10; 9:10). Sihon and Og were both independent kings. These Amorites seem to have been related to the Jerusalem region, and the Jebusites may have been a subgroup of them.

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