Canaan: Bible Verses about Canaan

List of 25 Bible Verses that Reference Bible Verses about Canaan, verse, and description

1. Genesis 12:7 – “The Lord appeared to Abram and said, ‘To your offspring I will give this land.’” (God promises to give Canaan to Abram’s descendants)
2. Genesis 13:15 – “For all the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever.” (God reaffirms His promise to give Canaan to Abram’s descendants)
3. Genesis 15:18-21 – “On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, ‘To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates.’” (God reaffirms His promise to give Canaan to Abram’s descendants)
4. Genesis 17:8 – “I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.” (God reaffirms His promise to give Canaan to Abram’s descendants)
5. Exodus 3:8 – “And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey.” (God promises to bring the Israelites to Canaan)
6. Exodus 3:17 – “And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.” (God promises to bring the Israelites to Canaan)
7. Exodus 6:8 – “And I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. I am the Lord.” (God reaffirms His promise to bring the Israelites to Canaan)
8. Deuteronomy 1:8 – “See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.” (God commands the Israelites to take possession of Canaan)
9. Deuteronomy 6:10-11 – “And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities that you did not build.” (God reaffirms His promise to bring the Israelites to Canaan)
10. Deuteronomy 8:7-8 – “For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey.” (God describes the land of Canaan to the Israelites)
11. Deuteronomy 11:24 – “Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea.” (God reaffirms His promise to give Canaan to the Israelites)
12. Joshua 1:2-3 – “Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.” (God commands the Israelites to take possession of Canaan)
13. Joshua 1:11 – “Pass through the midst of the camp and command the people, ‘Prepare your provisions, for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.’” (God commands the Israelites to take possession of Canaan)
14. Joshua 1:13-15 – “Remember the word that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, ‘The Lord your God is providing you a place of rest and will give you this land.’” (God reminds the Israelites of His promise to give them Canaan)
15. Joshua 11:23 – “So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.” (God fulfills His promise to give the Israelites Canaan)
16. Judges 1:27 – “But Manasseh did not take possession of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages, for the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.” (The Canaanites remain in the land despite God’s promise to give it to the Israelites)
17. 1 Kings 8:56 – “Blessed be the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. Not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he spoke by Moses his servant.” (God fulfills His promise to give the Israelites Canaan)
18. 2 Kings 17:24 – “And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the people of Israel. And they took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.” (The Assyrians take possession of Canaan)
19. Psalm 105:8-11 – “He remembers his covenant forever, the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations, the covenant that he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac, which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant.” (God remembers His promise to give Canaan to the Israelites)
20. Isaiah 19:25 – “Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.” (God acknowledges Israel’s possession of Canaan)
21. Jeremiah 32:22 – “And you gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.” (God reminds the Israelites of His promise to give them Canaan)
22. Ezekiel 20:15 – “Yet I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands.” (God reminds the Israelites of His promise to give them Canaan)
23. Amos 9:14-15 – “I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be uprooted out of the land that I have given them,” says the Lord your God.” (God reaffirms His promise to give the Israelites Canaan)
24. Zechariah 10:10 – “I will bring them home from the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria; and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon, till there is no room for them.” (God promises to restore the Israelites to Canaan)
25. Hebrews 11:9 – “By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.” (Abram shows faith in God’s promise to give Canaan to his descendants)