The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south. Their territory lay between the Dead and Red Seas, skirting the borders of Canaan. It embraced what is now called Wady Murreh, 'a comparatively fertile expanse of country somewhere between Kadesh and Engedi; and this agrees with the physical peculiarities of the extensive tract, partly arable, partly pastoral, which begins a little to the northwest of Ain-el-Kadeis, and sweeps round, in a northeasterly direction, past Bir-es-Seba and Tell 'Arad, to the neighbourhood of Kurmul and' Ain- Jidy' ('Negeb,' p. 8).
Hittites ... dwell in the mountains. Their settlements were in the southern and mountainous part of Palestine (Genesis 23:7).
The Canaanites dwell by the sea. The remnant of the original inhabitants, who had been dispossessed by the Philistines, were divided into two nomadic hordes; one settled eastward near the Jordan, the other westward by the Mediterranean.