Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
The canaanites
Abel-mizraim
Beyond jordan
Bible References
The canaanites
Genesis 10:15
And Canaan fathered Sidon, his first-born, and Heth,
Genesis 13:7
And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived then in the land.
Genesis 24:6
And Abraham said to him, Take care that you do not bring my son there again.
Genesis 34:30
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have troubled me, to make me stink among those who live in the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. And I, being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and kill me. And I shall be destroyed, my house and I.
Abel-mizraim
1 Samuel 6:18
And the golden mice were according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines for the five lords, of fortified cities and of country villages, even to the great meadow on which they set down the ark of Jehovah to this day, in the field of Joshua the Bethshemite.
Beyond jordan
Genesis 50:10
And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation. And he made a mourning for his father seven days.
Deuteronomy 3:25
I pray you, let me go over and see the good land beyond Jordan, this good hill-country and Lebanon.
Deuteronomy 11:30
Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way of the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites, who dwell in the plain across from Gilgal beside the plains of Moreh?