¹⁵ And Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up by yourselves to the forest, and there clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and ^(A)the Rephaim, since ^(B)the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”

⁵ In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the ^(A)Rephaim in ^(B)Ashteroth-karnaim, the ^(C)Zuzim in Ham, the ^(D)Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

^7 (A)and there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. At that time ^(B)the Canaanites and the Perizzites were dwelling in the land.

^48 (A)But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, ^(B)will receive a light beating. ^(C)Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.

Ezra Prays About Intermarriage

9 After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the ^(A)Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands ^(B)with their abominations, from the ^(C)Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

²² And the Philistines came up yet again ^(A)and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.

¹⁸ Now the Philistines had come and spread out in ^(A)the Valley of Rephaim.

² I will send an ^(A)angel before you, ^(B)and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

²⁰ the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,