Nave’s Topical Bible
Amorites
46 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Descendants of Canaan
- Were giants
- Struck down by Chedorlaomer and rescued by Abraham
- Territory of
Genesis 14:7; Numbers 13:29; Numbers 21:13; Deuteronomy 1:4,7,19; Deuteronomy 3:8-9; Joshua 5:1; Joshua 10:5; Joshua 12:2-3; Judges 1:35-36; Judges 11:22
- Given to descendants of Abraham
Genesis 15:21; Genesis 48:22; Deuteronomy 1:20; Deuteronomy 2:26-36; Deuteronomy 7:1; Joshua 3:10; Judges 11:23; Amos 2:10
- Allotted to Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh
- Conquest of
- Chiefs of
- Wickedness of
- Idolatry of
- Judgments denounced against
Exodus 23:24; Exodus 33:2; Exodus 34:10-11; Deuteronomy 20:17-18
- Hornets sent among
- Not exterminated
Judges 1:34-36; Judges 3:1-3,5-8; 1 Samuel 7:14; 2 Samuel 21:2; 1 Kings 9:20-21; 2 Chronicles 8:7
- Intermarry with Jews
- Kings of
Bible verses about “Amorites”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 10:15And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
- Genesis 10:16And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
- 1 Chronicles 1:13And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,
- 1 Chronicles 1:14The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
- Amos 2:9Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
- Genesis 14:7And they returned, and came to En–mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon–tamar.
- Numbers 13:29The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
- Numbers 21:13From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
- Deuteronomy 1:4After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
- Deuteronomy 1:7Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
- Deuteronomy 1:19And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh–barnea.
- Deuteronomy 3:8And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;
- Deuteronomy 3:9(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)
- Joshua 5:1And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
- Joshua 10:5Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it.
- Joshua 12:2Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
- Joshua 12:3And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Beth–jeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdoth–pisgah:
- Judges 1:35But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries.
- Judges 1:36And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
- Judges 11:22And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.
- Genesis 15:21And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
- Genesis 48:22Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
- Deuteronomy 1:20And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the Lord our God doth give unto us.
- Deuteronomy 2:26And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
- Deuteronomy 2:27Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.
- Deuteronomy 2:28Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet;
- Deuteronomy 2:29(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the Lord our God giveth us.
- Deuteronomy 2:30But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the Lord thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
- Deuteronomy 2:31And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.
- Deuteronomy 2:32Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
- Deuteronomy 2:33And the Lord our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
- Deuteronomy 2:34And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:
- Deuteronomy 2:35Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
- Deuteronomy 2:36From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the Lord our God delivered all unto us:
- Deuteronomy 7:1When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
- Joshua 3:10And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
- Judges 11:23So now the Lord God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
- Amos 2:10Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
- Numbers 32:33And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.
- Numbers 32:34And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,