Amorites

The Amorites are on the run here — their five-army coalition is fleeing in full panic down the pass at Beth-horon when God's hailstones begin cutting them down more effectively than any human weapon.

The Amorites appear here as part of the northern coalition's ethnic roll call — yet another indigenous group mobilizing everything they have for a last stand against Israel's advance.

The Amorites are identified here as Sihon's ethnic group — one of the Canaanite peoples whose territory east of the Jordan was among the first claimed in the conquest.

The Amorites are referenced here through Sihon, their king, as the major trans-Jordan power Moses had already defeated, clearing the way for the eastern tribal allotments.

The Amorites are one of the dominant people groups occupying Canaan whose kings, upon hearing about the Jordan crossing, lost all will to resist Israel's advance.

The Amorites join the anti-Israel coalition here, notable because Israel had already defeated two Amorite kings beyond the Jordan — making their alliance a desperate last stand.

The Amorites are invoked as the benchmark of wickedness — the narrator's point is that Ahab matched or exceeded the depravity of the very people God had expelled from the land to give to Israel.

The Amorites are referenced here as the former rulers of Gilead — their defeated kings Sihon and Og serve as the historical baseline showing how completely Israel now controls this once-hostile territory.

The Amorites are listed here as one of the non-Israelite peoples whose descendants Solomon conscripted into forced labor — pre-conquest residents of the land still living among Israel.

The Amorites appear here in Canaan's genealogy as one of the Canaanite clans — the same people group Israel will face in major battles when entering the Promised Land under Joshua.

The Amorites are among the last people group destroyed in Chedorlaomer's sweep before he finally confronts the five rebel kings, completing his tour of regional domination.

The Amorites are mentioned here as the reason for the four-hundred-year delay — God is waiting for their sin to reach its full measure before executing judgment, revealing that even the timing of Israel's suffering serves a moral purpose.

The Amorites are referenced here as the people whose territorial border Israel was skirting during the journey, with the Arnon river forming the boundary between Moab and Amorite territory to the north.

The Amorites are referenced again as evidence of Israel's power — Balak uses their swift defeat as the explicit justification for why he can't fight Israel conventionally and needs Balaam's curse instead.

The Amorites are the defeated former rulers of this eastern territory — their kingdoms under Sihon and Og are the spoils Moses is now formally distributing to the eastern tribes.

The Amorites appear here as the defeated enemy of Sihon's kingdom — Moses uses this recent victory as a credibility marker, showing the people that God has already begun clearing the way.

The Amorites are cited here as one of the peoples who had their own name for Mount Hermon ("Senir") — a detail underscoring that this land had deep pre-Israelite history now passing into new hands.