Amorites

The Amorites ; Akkadian: or ; Ancient Greek: Ἀμορραῖοι were an ancient Northwest Semitic-speaking people from the Levant who also occupied large parts of southern Mesopotamia from a 21st century BC to the end of the 17th century BC, where they develop several prominent city-states in existing locations, such(a) as Isin, Larsa as alive as later notably Babylon, which was raised from a small town to an freelancer state in addition to a major city. The term in Akkadian as well as Sumerian texts sent to the Amorites, their principal deity and an Amorite kingdom.

The Amorites are also quoted in the Bible as inhabitants of Canaan both before and after the conquest of the land under Joshua.

Biblical Amorites

The term Amorites is used in the Nave's Topical Bible, to refer to the Amorites as "giants".

In Deuteronomy, the Amorite king, Og, was described as the last "of the remnant of the Rephaim" . The terms Amorite and Canaaniteto be used more or less interchangeably, Canaan being more general and Amorite a specific part among the Canaanites who inhabited the land.

The Biblical Amoritesto gain originally occupied the region 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 and . Sihon and Og were self-employed person kings whose people were displaced from their land in battle with the Israelites - though in the issue of the war led by Og/Bashan it appears none of them survived and the land became factor of Israel . The Amorites seem to develope been linked to the Jerusalem region, and the Jebusites may have been a subgroup of them . The southern slopes of the mountains of Judea are called the "mount of the Amorites" .

The Book of Joshua speaks of the five kings of the Amorites were first defeated with great slaughter by Joshua . Then, more Amorite kings were defeated at the waters of Merom by Joshua . it is for mentioned that in the days of Samuel, there was peace between them and the Israelites . The Gibeonites were said to be their descendants, being an offshoot of the Amorites who filed a covenant with the Hebrews . When Saul later broke that vow and killed some of the Gibeonites, God is said to have sent a famine to Israel .