Who were the Canaanites?

Answer 1

Answer: The Canaanites were a group of ancient people who lived in the land of Canaan on the eastern shores of the Mediterrean Sea. Canaan is described in The Bible as extending from Lebanon toward the Brook of Egypt in the south and the Jordan River Valley in the east. In The Bible, notably in Genesis 10 and Numbers 34, this was called the "land of Canaan" and occupies the same area that is occupied by modern Lebanon and Israel, plus parts of Jordan and Syria

Answer 2

Answer: The Canaanites were a group of ancient people who lived in the land of Canaan on the eastern shores of the Mediterrean Sea. Canaan is described in the Bible as extending from Lebanon toward the Brook of Egypt in the south and the Jordan River Valley in the east. In the Bible, notably in Genesis 10 and Numbers 34, this was called the "land of Canaan" and occupies the same area that is occupied by modern Lebanon and Israel, plus parts of Jordan and Syria

Answer 3

The Canaanites were the ancestral occupants of Palestine. They were a Semitic race, and spoke a West Semitic language very similar to ancient Hebrew. Many Middle Eastern scholars regard the Canaanites as ancestors of today's Palestinians, although no doubt the Palestinians would also include Philistines, Nabateans and peninsular Arabs in their ancestry. Some scholars believe that the Canaanites were the real ancestors of the Hebrew people.