...good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the...

...to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me and I have also seen the oppression...

...come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians" and into the land of the "Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites." In other words, there are lots of other groups already there. Perhaps these people never left the promised...