The Amorites were one of the gentile nations in the land of Canaan. Canaan is their ancestor.
Genesis 10:15the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,Genesis 10:16the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,Genesis 10:17the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.Genesis 10:18The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon—as you go toward Gerar—to Gaza—as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim—to Lasha.
하사손다말이 근거지였던 것으로 보인다.
Genesis 14:7The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (also called Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim
출애굽 당시 이스라엘 민족이 아모리 족속의 땅을 지나기 위해 당시 왕 시혼에게 통과를 허락해달라고 요청했는데, 시혼은 오히려 병사를 끌고 와 공격을 했다. 이 때 이스라엘 민족에게 패하여 시혼도 죽임을 당하게 된다.
Numbers 21:21“Let me pass through your land. We will not turn away into field or vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border.”Numbers 21:22Sihon would not allow Israel)) to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz. He fought against Israel.Numbers 21:23Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was fortified.Numbers 21:24Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.Numbers 21:25For Heshbon was the city of Sihon) the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.Numbers 21:26Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, “Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
Deuteronomy 2:26“Let me pass through your land. I will go along by the highway. I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.Deuteronomy 2:27You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink. Just let me pass through on my feet,Deuteronomy 2:28as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us.”Deuteronomy 2:29But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.Deuteronomy 2:30Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you. Begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.”Deuteronomy 2:31Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.Deuteronomy 2:32Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, his sons, and all his people.Deuteronomy 2:33We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We left no one remaining.Deuteronomy 2:34Only the livestock we took for plunder for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities which we had taken.Deuteronomy 2:35From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. Yahweh our God delivered up all before us.Deuteronomy 2:36Only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn’t come near: all the banks of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us.