53 Bible Verses About Canaan

The scriptural narrative of Canaan unveils more than a mere territory; it is the stage upon which divine promise meets human faith and frailty. To delve into these verses is to witness God's unwavering purpose unfolding through generations. Here, we trace the path from Abraham's call to the complex journey of a people toward their inheritance. Understanding Canaan through scripture illuminates not just history, but the enduring patterns of God's relationship with humanity, revealing profound truths about promise, patience, and the spiritual terrain we are called to navigate in our own lives, guided by His word.

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And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

Study Canaan in Scripture: Foundational Verses

And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

Genesis 17:8KJV

And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

Genesis 16:3KJV

And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

Judges 4:2KJV

So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.

Judges 4:23KJV

And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

Judges 4:24KJV

And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 23:19KJV

And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

Genesis 28:8KJV

And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

Genesis 28:1KJV

The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.

Judges 5:19KJV

And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan–aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 31:18KJV

And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan–aram; and pitched his tent before the city.

Genesis 33:18KJV

And Sarah died in Kirjath–arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

Genesis 23:2KJV

When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan–aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

Genesis 28:6KJV

So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth–el, he and all the people that were with him.

Genesis 35:6KJV

Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;

Genesis 36:2KJV

And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 36:5KJV

And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.

Genesis 36:6KJV

And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 37:1KJV

And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 42:5KJV

And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

Genesis 42:7KJV

And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.

Genesis 42:13KJV

And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,

Genesis 42:29KJV

We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 42:32KJV

Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord’s house silver or gold?

Genesis 44:8KJV

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;

Genesis 45:17KJV

And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,

Genesis 45:25KJV

And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:

Genesis 46:6KJV

And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

Genesis 47:13KJV

And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.

Genesis 47:14KJV

And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.

Genesis 47:15KJV

And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

Genesis 48:3KJV

In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

Genesis 49:30KJV

My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

Genesis 50:5KJV

And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.

Exodus 6:4KJV

Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.

Exodus 15:15KJV

And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

Exodus 16:35KJV

When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;

Leviticus 14:34KJV

After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.

Leviticus 18:3KJV

And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:

Numbers 13:17KJV

The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

Numbers 26:19KJV

We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours.

Numbers 32:32KJV

And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.

Numbers 33:40KJV

But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.

Numbers 32:30KJV

These are they whom the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

Numbers 34:29KJV

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan;

Numbers 35:10KJV

Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.

Numbers 35:14KJV

Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:

Deuteronomy 32:49KJV

And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The Lord commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.

Joshua 21:2KJV

And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

Joshua 22:9KJV

And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to.

Joshua 22:10KJV

And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

Joshua 24:3KJV

Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

Judges 3:1KJV

And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

Judges 21:12KJV

These scriptural glimpses into Canaan reveal more than mere geography or history; they trace the contours of divine promise met with human frailty, the arduous path towards an inheritance granted by grace yet requiring steadfast faith. Canaan stands as a potent emblem of God's faithfulness amidst His people's journey, a stage upon which the drama of covenant unfolds. It is a land given, fought for, lost, and looked towards – a profound mirror reflecting the soul's own pilgrimage toward that ultimate rest and possession God prepares. Let these verses prompt deeper meditation, not only on the physical soil of ancient promise, but on the spiritual realities they signify: the battles for truth, the call to fidelity, and the ultimate hope of entering His full presence, our true and eternal Canaan.