– Individuals from ancient Canaan, Phoenicia, Palestine, very focused on trade because of their geographical position:
Pr 31.24 : She weaves flax and sells it, supplies belts to the merchant.
Is 23 :8 : Who then took this decision against Tyre, that crowned city, whose merchants were sovereign?
– They were kept with the Hebrews, even after the wars of conquest and with them they married.
Josh 16:10 : The children of Ephraim did not, however, drive out the Canaanites from Gezer, so that the Canaanites did.
Jos 17,12-13 : They could not take possession of these cities, because the Canaanites were determined to remain in them.
Judg 3 :5 : The children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites.
Judg 1 : 9 : They went down from there and fought the Canaanites from the mountains, the Negeb and the plain.
Judg 3,5-6 : The children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites.
Es 9,1-2 : They imitated the abominations of the Canaanites.
Ps 105 :38 : The blood of their sons and daughters, which they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan.
– The Canaanites were voted to be interdicted:
Num 21,1-3 : The Lord heard the pleas of Israel and handed him over the Canaanites, who were banned.
Deut 7,1-5 : When the Lord […] has brought you into the land you are going to possess, and has plundered […] the Canaanites.
Deut 20:17-18 : According to the order of the Lord your God, you shall put the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites under ban.
Ez 16,3.45 : By your origin and birth, you belong to the land of Canaan.
Os 12.8 : This merchant has false scales and loves fraud!
Sf 1,11 : Wail, inhabitants of the neighborhood of Mactes, because all the people of merchants have been annihilated.
– This is how we understand the answer given by Jesus to the Canaanite woman, whose faith he recognizes and praises:
Mt 15:21-28 : “O woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you as you wish.” And at the same time his daughter was healed.
