Ge:21:22-32: And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain
of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest: Now
therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son,
nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do
unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. And Abraham said, I will swear. And
Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had
violently taken away. And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst
thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day. And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and
gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant. And Abraham set seven ewe
lambs of the flock by themselves. And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these
seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? And he said, For these seven ewe lambs
shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them. Thus they
made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his
host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
The borders that were given to the children of Israel were from several peoples
(Philistines not included) that are mentioned repeatedly in various scriptures.
Ge:15:18-29: In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed
have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: The
Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the
Rephaims, And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girga****es, and the Jebusites.
Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very
great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. The Amalekites dwell in the land of
the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and
the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan. An Ammonite or Moabite shall
not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not
enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:
However, only six nations such as the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites
and the Jebusites were required to be destroyed or not to bargain and made peace with
them (Philistines not included).
Ex:3:8: And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring
them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and
honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites,
and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Ex:13:5: And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and
the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy
fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in
this month.
Ex:23:23: For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the
Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will
cut them off.
Ex:33:2: And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the
Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
Ex:34:11-12: Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before
thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the
Jebusite. Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land
whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee.
De:20:10-17: When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto
it. And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that
all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt
besiege it: And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite
every male thereof with the edge of the sword: But the women, and the little ones, and the
cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and
thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. Thus
shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of
these nations. But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for
an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: But thou shalt utterly destroy
them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites,
and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee