The Dispossessed People:
The Girgashites
The Girgashites were descendants of Canaan, son of Ham, son of Noah. The name means "dwelling on clay soil". The area where they lived is not known in great detail, except to be generally located in central Canaan.
Gn 10:15-18
15 Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,
16 the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite,
17 the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,
18 the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the
Canaanites were spread abroad.
Gn 15:18-21
18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your seed I have
given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river
Euphrates:
19 the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
Dt 7:1
When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it,
and shall cast out many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite,
and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the
Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you;
Jsh 3:10
Joshua said, “Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that
he will without fail drive the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and
the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite out
from before you.
Jsh 24:11
“‘You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought
against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the
Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your
hand.
1Ch 1:13-16
13 Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
14 and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
15 and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
16 and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
Neh 9:8
and found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give
the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the
Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his seed, and have performed
your words; for you are righteous.
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