2022年1月2日 · Shechem, as we already know, was a Hivite city. One of Esau’s wives was a Hivite. They were to be driven out by the Israelites with the other Canaanites, despite being one of the “seven nations greater and mightier than thou” (Deut 7:1). The more significant fact is this.

2022年2月1日 · Esau's wife Aholibamah is said to be "the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite" (Gen 36:2). It is easy to fail to notice that a Zibeon is listed further down in the chapter as son of Seir the Horite (36:20), that Anah is listed as one of "the children of Zibeon" (36:24), and that Aholibamah is listed as one of "the children of Anah" (36:25).

2022年2月5日 · The Septuagint (Gr. translation of the OT), however, substitutes Horites for Hivites in Gen. 34:2 and Josh. 9:7. Also, Zibeon, son of Seir the Horite (Gen. 36:20), is identified as a Hivite in Gen. 36:2. For these reasons, many scholars equate both Horites and Hivites (the names are quite similar in Hebrew) with the extrabiblical Hurrians.

2021年1月13日 · And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her. When I read this, I see Hamor as a hard-working person like a burro, and not as a sex maniac whose son is also a sex maniac. The word chamor appears 96 times. Almost all the times, it denotes a hard-working beast.

2022年1月4日 · The Israelites could have simply refused the Hivites' suggestion that the tribes be combined, demanded Dinah back, and made other plans to exact justice from the Hivite prince, Shechem.

2021年1月14日 · At least two of Esau's wives were giants from the Hittite and Hivite Nephilim tribes described as 'daughters of Canaan,' in Genesis 36:1-2: "This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom). Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite."

17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, 18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. 19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

In other words, Abimelech was half-Jew/half-Hivite ("problems will loom with him"), but Gaal the son of Ebal was 100% Hivite ("no problems will loom with me"). It is no better from the Jewish perspective. Abimelech was not entitled to any inheritance from his father --Gideon-- since he (Abimelech) was the son of a Hivite concubine.

We read, in Genesis 34:19: והוא נכבד מכל בית אביו ("he [Shechem] was the most important [or, to be reckoned with; literally, 'being heavy'] person in his father's household").

2021年6月29日 · In all of these sources Canaan is used both as a geographical term and as an ethnic appellation. According to Genesis (Genesis 9:20–3; 10:6), Canaan was the son of Ham, Noah’s second son. Canaan was the father of Sidon, Heth, the Jebusite, Amorite, Girgasite, Hivite, Arkite, Sinite, Arvadite, Zamarite and the Hamathite.