Amorites

Topics: Amorites

am'-o-rits; Amorites ('emori, always in the singular like the Babylonian Amurru from which it is taken; Amorraioi):

 1. Varying Use of the Name Explained

 2. The Amorite Kingdom

 3. Sihon's Conquest

 4. Disappearance of the Amorite Kingdom

 5. Physical Characteristics of the Amorites

 The name Amorite is used in the Old Testament to denote (1) the inhabitants of Palestine generally, (2) the population of the hills as opposed to the plain, and (3) a specific people under a king of their own. Thus (1) we hear of them on the west shore of the Dead Sea (Gen 14:7), at Hebron (Gen 14:13), and Shechem (Gen 48:22), in Gilead and Bashan (Dt 3:10) and under Hermon (Dt 3:8; 4:48). They are named instead of the Canaanites as the inhabitants of Palestine whom the Israelites were required to exterminate (Gen 15:16; Dt 20:17; Jdg 6:10; 1 Sam 7:14; 1 Ki 21:26; 2 Ki 21:11); the older population of Judah is called Amorite in Josh 10:5,6, in conformity with which Ezek (16:3) states that Jerusalem had an Amorite father; and the Gibeonites are said to have been "of the remnant of the Amorites" (2 Sam 21:2). On the other hand (2), in Nu 13:29 the Amorites are described as dwelling in the mountains like the Hittites and Jebusites of Jerusalem, while the Amalekites or Bedouins lived in the south and the Canaanites on the seacoast and in the valley of the Jordan. Lastly (3) we hear of Sihon, "king of the Amorites," who had conquered the northern half of Moab (Nu 21:21-31; Dt 2:26-35).

 1. Varying Use of the Name Explained:

 Assyriological discovery has explained the varying use of the name. The Hebrew form of it is a transliteration of the Babylonian Amurru, which was both sing. and plural. In the age of Abraham the Amurru were the dominant people in western Asia; hence Syria and Palestine were called by the Babylonians "the land of the Amorites." In the Assyrian period this was replaced by "land of the Hittites," the Hittites in the Mosaic age having made themselves masters of Syria and Canaan. The use of the name "Amorite" in its general sense belongs to the Babylonian period of oriental history.

 2. The Amorite Kingdom:

 The Amorite kingdom was of great antiquity. About 2500 BC it embraced the larger part of Mesopotamia and Syria, with its capital probably at Harran, and a few centuries later northern Babylonia was occupied by an "Amorite" dynasty of kings who traced theft descent from Samu or Sumu (the Biblical Shem), and made Babylon their capital. To this dynasty belonged Khammu-rabi, the Amraphel of Gen 14:1. In the astrological documents of the period frequent reference is made to "the king of the Amorites." This king of the Amorites was subject to Babylonia in the age of the dynasty of Ur, two or three centuries before the birth of Abraham He claimed suzerainty over a number of "Amorite" kinglets, among whom those of Khana on the Euphrates, near the mouth of the Khabur, may be named, since in the Abrahamic age one of them was called Khammu-rapikh and another Isarlim or Israel. A payment of a cadastral survey made at this time by a Babylonian governor with the Canaanite name of Urimelech is now in the Louvre. Numerous Amorites were settled in Ur and other Babylonian cities, chiefly for the purpose of trade. They seem to have enjoyed the same rights and privileges as the native Babylonians. Some of them were commercial travelers, but we hear also of the heads of the great firms making journeys to the Mediterranean coast.

 In an inscription found near Diarbekir and dedicated to Khammu-rabi by Ibirum (= Eber), the governor of the district, the only title given to the Babylonian monarch is "king of the Amorites," where instead of Amurru the Sumerian Martu (Hebrew moreh) is used. The great-grandson of Khammu-rabi still calls himself "king of the widespread land of the Amorites," but two generations later Babylonia was invaded by the Hittites, the Amorite dynasty came to an end, and there was once more a "king of the Amorites" who was not also king of Babylonia.

 The Amorite kingdom continued to exist down to the time of the Israelite invasion of Palestine, and mention is made of it in the Egyptian records as well as in the cuneiform Tell el-Amarna Letters, and the Hittite archives recently discovered at Boghaz-keui, the site of the Hittite capital in Cappadocia. The Egyptian conquest of Canaan by the kings of the XVIIIth Dynasty had put an end to the effective government of that country by the Amorite princes, but their rule still extended eastward to the borders of Babylonia, while its southern limits coincided approximately with what was afterward the northern frontier of Naphtali. The Amorite kings, however, became, at all events in name, the vassals of the Egyptian Pharaoh. When the Egyptian empire began to break up, under the "heretic king" Amenhotep IV, at the end of the XVIIIth Dynasty (1400 BC), the Amorite princes naturally turned to their more powerful neighbors in the north. One of the letters in the Tell el-Amarna correspondence is from the Pharaoh to his Amorite vassal Aziru the son of Ebed-Asherah, accusing him of rebellion and threatening him with punishment. Eventually Aziru found it advisable to go over openly to the Hittites, and pay the Hittite government an annual tribute of 300 shekels of gold. From that time forward the Amorite kingdom was a dependency of the Hittite empire, which, on the strength of this, claimed dominion over Palestine as far as the Egyptian frontier.

 The second successor of Aziru was Abi-Amurru (or Abi-Hadad), whose successor bore, in addition to a Semitic name, the Mitannian name of Bentesinas. Bente-sinas was dethroned by the Hittite King Muttallis and imprisoned in Cappadocia, where he seems to have met the Hittite prince Khattu-sil, who on the death of his brother Muttallis seized the crown and restored Bente-sinas to his kingdom. Bente-sinas married the daughter of Khattu-sil, while his own daughter was wedded to the son of his Hittite suzerain, and an agreement was made that the succession to the Amorite throne should be confined to her descendants. Two or three generations later the Hittite empire was destroyed by an invasion of "northern barbarians," the Phrygians, probably, of Greek history, who marched southward, through Palestine, against Egypt, carrying with them "the king of the Amorites." The invaders, however, were defeated and practically exterminated by Ramses III of the XXth Egyptian Dynasty (1200 BC). The Amorite king, captured on this occasion by the Egyptians, was probably the immediate predecessor of the Sihon of the Old Testament.

 3. Sihon's Conquest:

 Egyptian influence in Canaan had finally ceased with the invasion of Egypt by the Libyans and peoples of the Aegean in the fifth year of Meneptah, the successor of Ramses II, at the time of the Israelite Exodus. Though the invaders were repulsed, the Egyptian garrisons had to be withdrawn from the cities of southern Palestine, where their place was taken by the Philistines who thus blocked the way from Egypt to the north. The Amorites, in the name of their distant Hittite suzerains, were accordingly able to overrun the old Egyptian provinces on the east side of the Jordan; the Amorite chieftain Og possessed himself of Bashan (Dt 3:8), and Sihon, "king of the Amorites," conquered the northern part of Moab.

 The conquest must have been recent at the time of the Israelite invasion, as the Amorite song of triumph is quoted in Nu 21:27-29, and adapted to the overthrow of Sihon himself by the Israelites. `Woe unto thee,' it reads, `O Moab; thou art undone, O people of Chemosh! (Chemosh) hath given thy sons who escaped (the battle) and thy daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.' The flame that had thus consumed Heshbon, it is further declared, shall spread southward through Moab, while Heshbon itself is rebuilt and made the capital of the conqueror: "Come to Heshbon, that the city of Sihon (like the city of David, 2 Sam 5:9) may be rebuilt and restored. For the fire has spread from Heshbon, the flame from the capital of Sihon, devouring as far as Moab (reading `adh with the Septuagint instead of `ar), and swallowing up (reading bale`ah with the Septuagint) the high places of Arnon." The Israelite invasion, however, prevented the expected conquest of southern Moab from taking place.

 4. Disappearance of the Amorite Kingdom:

 After the fall of Sihon the Amorite kingdom disappears. The Syrians of Zobah, of Hamath and of Damascus take its place, while with the rise of Assyria the "Amorites" cease to be the representatives in contemporary literature of the inhabitants of western Asia. At one time their power had extended to the Babylonian frontier, and Bente-sinas was summoned to Cappadocia by his Hittite overlord to answer a charge made by the Babylonian ambassadors of his having raided northern Babylonia. The Amorite king urged, however, that the raid was merely an attempt to recover a debt of 30 talents of silver.

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All verses with the key words AMORITE / AMORITES. Colored text for points to be made.
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The Amorites lived in Canaan/Palestine before the existence of any such thing as an Israelite.
They fought against the Israelites.
Do not confuse Amorites with Ammonites (descendants of Lot)

01~GENESIS 010|016` And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
01~GENESIS 014|007` And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazezontamar.
01~GENESIS 014|013` And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he lived in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.
01~GENESIS 015|016` But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
01~GENESIS 015|021` And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
01~GENESIS 048|022` Moreover I have given to you one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
02~EXODUS 003|008` And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good land and a large, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
02~EXODUS 003|017` And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.
02~EXODUS 013|005` And it shall be when the Lord shall bring you into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware to thy fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shalt keep this service in this month.
02~EXODUS 023|023` For mine Angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
02~EXODUS 033|002` And I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

02~EXODUS 034|011` Observe you that which I command you this day: behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
The Amorites were to be driven out of the land of Canaan, but it never happened. They lived in the midst of the Israelites.
04~NUMBERS 013|029` The 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.
04~NUMBERS 021|013` From there they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
04~NUMBERS 021|021` And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
04~NUMBERS 021|025` And Israel took all these cities: and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.
04~NUMBERS 021|026` For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to Arnon.
04~NUMBERS 021|029` Woe to you, Moab! you art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.
04~NUMBERS 021|031` Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
04~NUMBERS 021|032` And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there. ... They were never completely driven out, in fact, it was the Israelites who only lived in the land for a period, then they were dispersed through out SW Asia and North Africa.
04~NUMBERS 021|034` And the Lord said to Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shalt do to him as you didst to Sihon king of the Amorites, which lived at Heshbon.
04~NUMBERS 022|002` And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
04~NUMBERS 032|033` And Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to 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
04~NUMBERS 032|039` And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
05~DEUTERONOMY 001|004` After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which lived at Astaroth in Edrei:
05~DEUTERONOMY 001|007` Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and to 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 to Lebanon, to the great river, the river Euphrates.
05~DEUTERONOMY 001|019` And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which you saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.
05~DEUTERONOMY 001|020` And I said to you, Ye are come to the mountain of the Amorites, which the Lord our God doth give to us.
05~DEUTERONOMY 001|027` And you murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
05~DEUTERONOMY 001|044` And the Amorites, which lived in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even to Hormah.
05~DEUTERONOMY 002|024` Rise you up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into yours hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
05~DEUTERONOMY 003|002` And the Lord said to me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and you shalt do to him as you didst to Sihon king of the Amorites, which lived at Heshbon.
05~DEUTERONOMY 003|008` And 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 to mount Hermon;
05~DEUTERONOMY 003|009` (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)
05~DEUTERONOMY 004|046` On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:
05~DEUTERONOMY 004|047` And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward .- the sun rising;
05~DEUTERONOMY 007|001` When the Lord thy God shall bring you into the land whither you goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before you, 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
05~DEUTERONOMY 020|017` But you shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded you: ... NEVER HAPPENED !
05~DEUTERONOMY 031|004` And the Lord shall do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to the land of them, whom he destroyed.
06~JOSHUA 002|010` For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.
06~JOSHUA 003|010` And Joshua said, Hereby you 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.
06~JOSHUA 005|001` And 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.
06~JOSHUA 007|007` And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord God, wherefore hast you at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and lived on the other side Jordan!
06~JOSHUA 009|001` And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;
06~JOSHUA 009|010` And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth.
06~JOSHUA 010|005` Therefore 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.
06~JOSHUA 010|006` And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.
06~JOSHUA 010|012` Then spoke Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand you still upon Gibeon; and you, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
06~JOSHUA 011|003` And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.
06~JOSHUA 012|002` Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived 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 to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
06~JOSHUA 012|008` In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
06~JOSHUA 013|004` From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians to Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:
06~JOSHUA 013|010` And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;
06~JOSHUA 013|021` And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.
06~JOSHUA 024|008` And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which lived on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that you might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.
06~JOSHUA 024|011` And you went over Jordan, and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
06~JOSHUA 024|012` And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.
06~JOSHUA 024|015` And if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
06~JOSHUA 024|018` And the Lord drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which lived in the land: therefore will we also serve the Lord; for he is our God.
07~JUDGES 001|034` And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
07~JUDGES 001|035` But 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.
07~JUDGES 001|036` And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
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07~JUDGES 003|005` And the children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
07~JUDGES 003|006` And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons...

By the time the Israelites put away their Asian wives in Ezra, they themselves were nothing other than a composite of the Amorites/Asians they put away !

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07~JUDGES 006|010` And I said to you, I am the Lord your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but you have not obeyed my voice.
07~JUDGES 010|008` And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
07~JUDGES 010|011` And the Lord said to the children of Israel, Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
07~JUDGES 011|019` And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, Let us pass, we pray you, through thy land into my place.
07~JUDGES 011|021` And the Lord God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
07~JUDGES 011|022` And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even to Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to Jordan.
07~JUDGES 011|023` So now the Lord God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest you possess it?
09~1_SAMUEL 007|014` And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites... still living there !
10~2_SAMUEL 021|002` And the king called the Gibeonites, and said to them; (Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
11~1_KINGS 004|019` Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer which was in the land.
11~1_KINGS 009|020` And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
11~1_KINGS 021|026` And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
12~2_KINGS 021|011` Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
13~1_CHRONICLES 001|014` The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
14~2_CHRONICLES 008|007` As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel,
15~EZRA 009|001` Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
15~EZRA 009|002` For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

This mingling with the Amorites had been going on for centuries before the hypocrites finally decided to get rid of them in the book of Ezra. Those who put away their 'strange wives' were nothing but the very descendants of all the Asian they put away
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16~NEHEMIAH 009|008` And foundest his heart faithful before you, and madest a covenient with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for you art righteous:
19~PSALMS 135|011` Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan:
19~PSALMS 136|019` Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for ever:
26~EZEKIEL 016|003` And say, Thus saith the Lord God to Jerusalem; Your birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
30~AMOS 002|009` Yet 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.

The Israelites were not a unique race or people. The Israelites were NOTHING BUT a composite of all the Asian/African tribes who existed before they became a fart in the wind.
The Israelites were composed of descendants of the Amorites, whom they fought against. The priest produced children with the Amorites, then cast out their own kids into these Asian tribes. Wouldn't that mean the DNA of the priest would be scattered through out all of those Asian nations/tribes?

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