Among Canaan's other descendants are the Jebusites, Amorites, and Girgashites — three of the peoples who will inhabit the land God promises to Abraham's descendants. The Jebusites inhabited Jerusalem before David captured it (2 Samuel 5:6–9); the Amorites were among the most powerful peoples in Canaan and became a general term for the Canaanite population in some texts; the Girgashites appear in multiple lists of the seven nations of Canaan (Deuteronomy 7:1). The peoples who will be displaced by Israel as it enters the promised land are all accounted for in the Table of Nations — they are not faceless obstacles but named peoples with genealogical identity, descended from Noah through Ham through Canaan. Deuteronomy 9:5 makes clear that their displacement is not ethnic judgment but moral — their wickedness, rooted in the pattern Ham established in Genesis 9, is the reason.

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