Examination of Seven Nations References<BR><BR>

  <B> Pride/Hittite: </B> <BR>
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    1. Num. 13:29  ...the Hittites..<B> .dwell in the mountains...</B> 
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    2. Prov. 16:18  Pride goes before destruction and a<B>  haughty spirit  
       before a fall</B> .<BR><BR>


   <B>  Rebellion/Girgashite: </B> <BR>

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    3. Girgashite:" <B>  Dwellers in a clayley land </B>  ";<BR>

       Source: Gesinius' Hebrew Chaldee Lexicon (Girgashite definition)<BR>


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    4. Jeremiah 18:6 ...Oh house of Israel as the clay is in the potter's
       hand, so are you in mine hand...<BR>

       Jeremiah 19:1 ...<B>get a  potter's earthen bottle...<BR>

       Jeremiah 19:10 ...then thou shalt break the bottle in the sight of
       men...  <BR>

       Jeremiah 19:11 ...say unto them "Even so I shall break this people
       and this city as one breaketh a potter's vessel that cannot be 
       made whole again..." </B><BR><BR>


       
    <B> Bitterness/Amorite: </B> <BR>


    5. Joshua 10:1-14  <BR>
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        Joshua 10:4,5 ...come up that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made
        peace with the children of Israel.Therefore, <B>   the five kings of 
        the Amorites...gathered themselves together they and all their
        hosts... and made war against it </B>  .<BR>

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    6. Prov. 26:21 As coals are to burning coals, and wood is to fire,
        <B>  so is a contentious man to kindle strife </B> .<BR>

       Prov. 29:22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a  <B>  furious man
       aboundeth in transgression </B>  .<BR><BR>



    <B> Defilement/Canaanite:   </B> <BR>

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    7. Lev. 18:1-25 <BR>

        Lev.18:3 ...after the doings of the land of Canaan...shall ye not   
        do...<BR>

        Lev.18:24  <B>  Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things; for in
        all the nations are defiled which I cast out before you. </B>  <BR>

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    8. I Kings 11:1-8 <BR>

        I Kings 11:1,2 But Soloman loved many strange women...of the  
        nations which the Lord said unto them ye shall not go into 
        them, neither shall they come into you, <B>   for surely they will
        turn away your heart after their gods </B>  : Soloman clave to these  in love.<BR>

        I Kings 11:3 ...his wives turned away his heart.<BR>

        I Kings 11:8 ...He...burnt incense and sacrificed unto their god's.<BR>

        Prov 13:20 ... a companion to fools will be destroyed.<BR><BR>






  <B>   Theft/Perizzite: </B> <BR>

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    9. Perizzite:" <B>  a dweller in an unwalled village </B>  "<BR>

       Source: Unger's Bible Dictionary (Perizzite definition)<BR>


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    10. Ps. 80:12  Why hast thou then broken down her hedges (walls),
         <B>  that they which pass by the way do pluck her? </B>  <BR>

        Mark 12:1<BR><BR>


    
   <B>   Deceit/Hivite: </B> <BR>

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    11. Josh. 9:3-27<BR>

         Josh. 9:3 and when the inhabitants of Gibeon  <B>  (Hivites,Joshua 9:7)  </B>  
         heard what Joshua had done to Ai.  <B>  They did work wilily 
         (deceitfully) and went and made as if they had been ambassadors </B>   
         an took wine bottles,old rent(torn),and bound up ,and old shoes 
         and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them, an all 
         the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.<BR>


         Josh. 9:22 Joshua spake unto them saying  <B>  wherefore have ye 
         beguiled (deceived) us  </B>  saying we are very far from you when ye
         dwell among us?<BR>


         Josh. 9:25 ...they (the Israelites) slew them not...<BR>

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    12. Prov. 12:22  <B>  Lying lips are abomination to the Lord... </B>  <BR><BR>



     <B> Greed/Jebusite: </B> 
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    13. 2 Sam 5:1-8<BR>

          2 Sam 5:2 ...in time past, thou was he that leddest out and 
          broughtest in Israel: and the Lord said unto thee:" Thou shalt
          feed my people, and <B>   thou shalt shalt be captain over Israel </B>  ."<BR>


          2 Sam 5:6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the
          Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land...<BR>

           <B>  Jebusite meaning: Threshingfloor  
          Source: Strong's Concordance<BR>


          Threshingfloor: a place where the fruits of the soil are kept
          and protected.</B>  <BR>

          Source: Unger's Bible Dictionary (Threshingfloor definition)<BR>


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     14. Mat 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate
 	the one, and love the other, or else he will hold to the one, 
	and despise the other. <B>Ye cannot serve God and mammon.</B>

        Deut. 8:13,14 And  when thy ...herds and thy flocks multiply 
         and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied and all that thou 
         hast is multiplied; Then thine heart be lifted up and thou
         forget the Lord thy God... And thou say in thine heart, My
         power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth.
         As the nations which the Lord God destroyed ... so shall ye 
         perish...2 Sam 24:15-25, 1 Chron 21:18-30, Luke 12:15-21