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named Amor, Scripture is silent, but this strange departure in the writing of a genealogy
lifts out into prominence these Canaanite tribes.
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Og, king of Bashan, an Amorite (Deut. 31: 4) is called "Of the remnant of the giants"
(Deut. 3: 11). Giants had dwelt in this vicinity "in old time" (Deut. 2: 20), and Bashan
was called "the land of the giants" (Deut. 3: 13). In connection with which the reader
should consult The Giant Cities of Bashan by Porter.
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A special tribe of the Canaanites was descended from Arba. He is said to have been a
great man among the Anakim, and gave his name to the city of Kirjath-arba, afterwards
called Hebron (Josh. 14: 15).
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The Anakim were described as "tall" and the name means "long necked". These struck
terror in the heart of the ten spies who brought back an evil report. In their sight, Israel
felt as "grasshoppers" (Numb. 13: 28) and the saying was repeated "who can stand
before the children of Anak?" (Deut. 9: 2).
(13)
Some of the "giants" remained unto the days of David, notably Goliath (I Sam. 17: 4)
and Ishbi-benob, Saph, a brother of Goliath and an unnamed man of great stature who
had "on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes" (II Sam. 21: 16-22).
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The parable of "the wheat and the tares" declares that the "good seed are the children of
the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one, and the enemy that
sowed them is the devil" (Matt. 13: 38, 39). No other end but to be gathered out and
burned is said of the tares. They are evidently a counterfeit of the true seed, for not
until the harvest is it possible to discriminate without endangering the true seed.
(15)
The Saviour discriminates between "My Father" and "your father" saying "If God were
your Father, ye would love Me", "ye are of your father the devil . . . He was a murderer
from the beginning" so linking up with the "iniquity" of Cain (John 8: 38-44).
(16)
Some were called by the Lord "serpents" and "generations of vipers" (Matt. 23: 33),
and He asked "How can ye escape the damnation of hell (gehenna)?" This
denunciation is preceded by words that are reminiscent of Gen. 15: "The iniquity of
the Amorite was not yet full" for He said "Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers"
(Matt. 23: 32).
(17)
The Apostle Paul was withstood by a sorcerer named Bar-Jesus, significant name!
who was also called Elymas, which by interpretation means a "sorcerer". The Apostle
called him "a child of the devil" (Acts 13: 10), and his evil attitude is described as
"perverting" the right ways of the Lord.
(18)
Just as the Amorites barred the way and prevented Israel from entering into their
inheritance, so the Apostle says "we wrestle not against flesh and blood (even as Israel
were told `meddle not' with Esau or with Ammon in Deut. 2: 5, 19), but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against
spiritual wickedness in high (or heavenly) places" (Eph. 6: 12). These principalities
were "spoiled" and "made a show of openly" at the cross (Col. 2: 15) and were led
captive at the Ascension (Eph. 4: 8) even as in type Joshua took the thirty-one kings
(Josh. 12: 9-24).
(19)
John in his first epistle differentiates between "the children of God" and "the children
of the devil", and instances "Cain who was of that wicked one" (I John 3: 10-12).
(20)
In the book of the Revelation, we learn that at the time of the end, there will be those
who say they are Jews, and are not, but who are "the synagogue of Satan" (Rev. 2: 9;
3: 9) and they who hold "the doctrine of Balaam" (Rev. 2: 14); a false prophetess
named Jezebel (Rev. 2: 20), together with some who have "known the depths of Satan"
(Rev. 2: 24), while the Laodiceans were about to be "spued out" of the Lord's mouth
(Rev. 3: 16), a figure that reminds us of the Canaanites who were "spued out" of the
land (Lev. 18: 28). They are summed up as "earth dwellers" whose names are not
written in the book of life (Rev. 13: 8). They are the false seed. When Babylon falls,