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Hittites

The Hittites appear in Abraham's Machpelah purchase; under the Sinai covenant Yahweh will drive them out before Israel.

Meaning
Occupation
First mention
Genesis 15:20

Scripture references

  • Genesis 15:20

    the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,

  • Genesis 23:3

    Abraham spoke to the Hittites,

  • Genesis 23:10

    Ephron was sitting among the Hittites...

  • Genesis 23:20

    the field and the cave in it passed from the Hittites into Abraham's possession...

  • Genesis 26:34

    When Esau was forty years old he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

  • Genesis 26:35

    These were a bitter disappointment to Isaac and Rebekah.

  • Genesis 27:46

    Rebekah said to Isaac, 'The Hittite women sicken me to death. If Jacob were to marry a Hittite woman like these, one of the local women, what would there be left in life for me?'

  • Genesis 49:32

    the field and the cave in it which were bought from the Hittites.'

  • Genesis 50:13

    His sons carried him to Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field at Machpelah, facing Mamre, which Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site of his own.

  • Exodus 3:8

    And I have come down to rescue them from the clutches of the Egyptians and bring them up out of that country, to a country rich and broad, to a country flowing with milk and honey, to the home of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites.

  • Exodus 13:5

    and when Yahweh has brought you into the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, flowing with milk and honey, which he swore to your ancestors that he would give you, then you must observe this rite in the same month.

  • Exodus 23:28

    I shall send hornets ahead of you to drive Hivite, Canaanite and Hittite out before you.

  • Exodus 33:2

    I shall send an angel in front of you and drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites.

  • Exodus 34:11

    Mark, then, what I command you today. I am going to drive out the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites before you.