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Canaan (Phoenician: Kanaʻn; Hebrew: כְּנָעַן Kənáʻan) was a region conquered by the Israelites as the Promised Land. Canaan, Arkansas; Canaan, Connecticut; Canaan, New Hampshire; Canaan Valley, West Virginia
Locations of Canaan's descendants. According to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 (verses 15–19), Canaan was the ancestor of the tribes who originally occupied the ancient Land of Canaan: all the territory from Sidon or Hamath in the north to Gaza in the southwest and Lasha in the southeast.
Makkedah (Hebrew: מַקֵּדָה; in LXX Ancient Greek: Μακηδά or Μακέδ as in 1 Maccabees; in Vulgate Latin: Mageth) was a city in the land of Canaan. Joshua 12:16 gives a list of thirty-one cities whose kings, according to the Book of Joshua, were defeated in the conquest of Canaan following the Exodus, and Makkedah is included. [204]
There was also a town with the same name on the eastern boundary of the land promised to Moses in Canaan, known from Numbers 34:2, 10, 11, but whose location is still uncertain. [1] The town is described in Numbers 34:11 as "on the eastern side of Ain".
1873: William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography: 2: Iabadius-Zymethus: PALAESTINA (Παλαιστίνη : Eth. (Παλαιστίνόs), the most commonly received and classical name for the country, otherwise called the Land of Canaan, Judaea, the Holy Land, &c. This name has the authority of the prophet lsaiah, among the sacred ...
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) recently acquired 1,393 acres in Tucker County that will help preserve one of the largest wetlands in Central Appalachia as well as create 80 miles of connecting ...
Reid Lake, [1] also known as Duncairn Reservoir, is a man-made reservoir in the Canadian Province of Saskatchewan. [2] Reid Lake was formed with the construction of the Duncairn Dam [ 3 ] in a glacial meltwater channel along the course of Swift Current Creek in 1942.
E. M. Backus Lodge, also known as Camp Toxaway, The Cold Mountain Lodge and Canaan Land Christian Retreat , is a historic hunting lodge and national historic district located near Lake Toxaway, Jackson County and Transylvania County, North Carolina. The lodge was built about 1903, and is a 2-story, double-pile house of chestnut logs.