The Dispossessed People:
The Perizzites
The name means "belonging to a village" or "dwelling in an open, unwalled village". They lived in southern Canaan.
Gn 13:7
There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen
of Lot’s livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the
land at that time.
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.”
Gn 34:30
Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the
inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am
few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me,
and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”
Ex 3:8,17
8 I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to
bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with
milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the
Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
17 and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the
land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the
Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’
Ex 23:23
For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the
Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them
off.
Ex 33:2
I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the
Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
Ex 34:11
Observe that which I command you this day. Behold, I drive out before you the
Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the
Jebusite.
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;
Dt 20:17
but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite,
and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has
commanded 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 9:1
It happened, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country,
and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon,
the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and
the Jebusite, heard of it
Jsh 11:3
to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amorite, and the Hittite,
and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite
under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
Jsh 12:8
in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes,
and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amorite, and the
Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
Jsh 17:15
Joshua said to them, “If you are a great people, go up to the forest, and
clear land for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the
Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for 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.
Jdg 1:4,5
4 Judah went up; and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites
into their hand: and they struck of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
5 They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they struck
the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
Jdg 3:5
The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the
Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
1Kg 9:20
As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the
Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of
Israel;
2Ch 8:7
As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel;
Ezr 9:1
Now when these things were done, the princes drew near to me, saying, The people
of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from
the peoples of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of
the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the
Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
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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