Hiwiter

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The Hiwiter (also Chiwwiter; Hebrew חִוִּי or חיווי [ם] chiwwi ֵ [m] ) are in the Old Testament ( Gen 10.17  EU ) named descendants of a son of Canaan ( Gen 10.6  EU ), grandson of Ham ( Gen 10.1  EU ) and great-grandson of Noah . The peoples of the Sidonians , Hittites , Jebusites , Amorites , Girgashites , Arkites , Sinites , Arwadites , Zemarites and Hamatites also come from the clan of Canaan ( Gen 10.15-18  EU ). This may mean that they were direct brothers of the ancestral father of the Hiwiter, but it does not have to be, since the Bible often skips degrees of kinship in order to show larger connections. In addition, the details of the exact relationship are often not mentioned.

The residents of the city of Shechem ( Gen 34.2  EU ) belonged to the Hivites . After Shechem had raped a daughter of Jacob named Dina and then wanted to marry her, the city Shechem, in which Shechem lived, was attacked by Simeon and Levi , two brothers of Dinah, and all the male residents in the city were killed. ( Gen 34,1-3  EU ). In ( Jos 9,17  EU ) Gibeon , Kefira, Beerot and Kirjat-Jearim are named as other cities of the Hiwiter.

After the people of Israel came out of the desert , they, at God's behest, took possession of the land they had come to and drove out or killed the local population. And although God had expressly intended this fate for the Hivites as well ( Deuteronomy 20.17  EU ), the people of the Hivites succeeded by a ruse ( JosEU ) to conclude a covenant with the Israelites, whereupon they began with the execution of the ban they were spared. From then on they were used as servants for cutting wood and scooping water. ( Jos 9.23  EU )

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