The Ophel generally refers to the area between the City of David (the original citadel he conquered from the Jebusites) in the south and Temple Mount (the mountain on which the Jewish temple was ...

PALESTINE has a special pigeonhole in the memories of the great majority of us; all of us know something—some more, some less — of one or other phase of its history. The Canaanites, the ...

Canaan was the land of Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, whom God wanted His chosen people to destroy, not betroth. When the prophet Ezra learns about the ...

The Palestinians of today are an amalgam of the Canaanite tribes: the Hivites, Hittites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites, as well as former Jews and Samaritans, all encountered by ...