Deuteronomy 7:1

shall bring thee into, etc.] See on Deuteronomy 6:10.

shall cast out, etc.] strip, or clear, off; Deuteronomy 7:22; 2 Kings 16:6: the only applications of this verb to the extirpation of human beings; in Deuteronomy 19:5 intrans. of the slipping of an axe-head from the heft, Deuteronomy 28:40 the dropping of olives. J E of drawing off sandals, Exodus 3:5; Joshua 5:15.

The list of seven nations which follows is of a kind frequent in JE, D (Deuteronomy 20:17) and deuteronomic passages in other books; -in many cases probably Joshua 24:11 is one that is very clear introduced by the compiler" (Dri.), but always with a rhetorical purpose. The order and even the contents of these lists vary; for details see Driver on this verse, and on Exodus 3:8.

Hittite Egyptian and Assyrian monuments record a Ḥittite power in N. Syria with a centre at Ḳadesh on the Orontes. Judges 1:26; Judges 3:23; Joshua 11:3 (in these last two read Ḥittitefor Ḥivite) bring the name as far as the S. end of Mt Hermon. P mentions people of the same or a similar name in S. Palestine as owning the land about Ḥebron (Genesis 23:3; Genesis 23:10), and gives Esau wives of the daughters of Ḥeth (Genesis 26:4; Genesis 27:46). Ezekiel (Ezekiel 16:3, cp. Ezekiel 16:45) calls the mother of Jerusalem a Ḥittite. On these grounds (and others) the existence of at least Ḥittite colonies or suzerainties in S. Palestine has been maintained. But in P Ḥittite may be used in the same general sense as Amorite in E and D and Canaanite in J; cp. Joshua 1:4 (deuteronomic) all the land of the Ḥ. = all Syria, which the Assyrians also mean by -the land of the Khatti"; and P's Ḥittites at Hebron are called Amorites by E, Joshua 10:5; while Ezekiel, too, may have no ethnological distinction in mind, but may mean only to emphasise the inborn heathenism of Jerusalem. The question is still uncertain and of no importance for the understanding of a rhetorical list like this. For details see the writer's Jerus.II. 16 18.

Girgashite in but a few of the lists; here, Joshua 3:10; Joshua 24:11; Genesis 15:21; Genesis 10:16 (J) puts them under the political supremacy of Canaan (begotten by C.) or Phoenicia. Their territory is unknown. The name seems onomatopoetic like Zamzummim (Deuteronomy 2:20); cp. Arab, -garas," to make a low sound or speak softly.

Amorite … Canaanite See on Deuteronomy 1:7.

Perizzite in all but two or three of the lists. J mentions this people, along with the Canaanite, as Israel's predecessors (Genesis 13:7; Genesis 34:30; Judges 1:4-5), and their land as in the centre of the range of W. Palestine (Joshua 17:15). The name has been derived, but not certainly, from perazah, -open region" or -region of unwalled towns," perazi, -the inhabitant of such" (Deuteronomy 3:5).

Hivite in all the lists. In J they are subject to Phoenicia (Canaan, Genesis 10:17) and the Gibeonites are called Ḥivites(Joshua 9:7; cp. the deuteronomic Deuteronomy 11:19). In 2 Samuel 24:7 their cities are coupled with those of the Canaanites as now Israel's. The Heb. Ḥiwwiseems connected with ḥawwah, tent-village.

Jebusite in all the lists save one; according to J and other sources the inhabitants of Jerusalem and its land till their conquest by David (Joshua 15:63; Judges 1:21; Judges 19:11; 2 Samuel 5:6; 2 Samuel 5:8); cf. P's the shoulder of the Jebusite, that is Jerusalem, Joshua 18:16; Joshua 18:28. See the writer's Jerus.i. 226 f., ii. 18, 28.