The Perizzites were one of the foreign peoples in the land of Canaan. They were already there when Abraham settled in Canaan.
Genesis 13:5The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their possessions were so great that they couldn’t live together.Genesis 13:6There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.Genesis 13:7Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.
Genesis 15:18the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,Genesis 15:19the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,Genesis 15:20the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”Genesis 15:21the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
Exodus 3:8Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
Nehemiah 9:7found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.Nehemiah 9:8“You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,
Joshua 24:11I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.
Judges 3:5They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.Judges 3:6The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
솔로몬 시대에는 이스라엘의 영토에 남아 있던 브리스 족속들이 노예로 부려졌다.
1 Kings 9:20their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day.1 Kings 9:21But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondservants; but they were the men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
2 Chronicles 8:7of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel didn’t consume, of them Solomon conscripted forced labor to this day.2 Chronicles 8:8But of the children of Israel, Solomon made no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
에스라(학자)와 함께 바벨론 귀환 시기에 유대인들이 그들과 어울리면서 결혼을 맺은 것을 알게 되었다. 이후 그들은 결단하여 이방인 아내들을 내보내게 된다.
Ezra 9:1For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”Ezra 9:2When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled the hair out of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.