<P> The word Canaanites serves as an ethnic catch - all term covering various indigenous populations -- both settled and nomadic - pastoral groups -- throughout the regions of the southern Levant or Canaan . Canaanite is by far the most frequently used ethnic term in the Bible . In the Book of Joshua , Canaanites are included in a list of nations to exterminate , and later described as a group which the Israelites had annihilated . </P>
<P> The word Canaanites serves as an ethnic catch - all term covering various indigenous populations -- both settled and nomadic - pastoral groups -- throughout the regions of the southern Levant or Canaan . Canaanite is by far the most frequently used ethnic term in the Bible . In the Book of Joshua , Canaanites are included in a list of nations to exterminate , and later described as a group which the Israelites had annihilated . </P>
who was the land of canaan named after
who was the land of canaan named after
Canaanites
Canaanites