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Sihor; a river, of which see Isa_23:3 Jer_2:18.
Which is counted to the Canaanite, i.e. which, though now possessed by the Philistines, who drove out the Canaanites, the old inhabitants of it, Deu_2:23 Amo_9:7; yet is a part of the land of Canaan, and therefore belongs to the Israelites.
The Avites, or the Avims, as they are called, Deu_2:23; who though they were expelled out of their ancient seat, and most of them destroyed by the Caphtorims or Philistines, as is there said, yet many of them probably escaped, and planted themselves in some other place not very far from the former.