A:According to the Hebrew Bible, the Jebusites were a Canaanite people, and were therefore ethnically Semites. They would have had brown skin, black hair and high noses, much like the Palestinians and Sephardic Jews of today.
The Jebusites were one of the ancient Canaanite tribes that inhabited the region of Jerusalem before it was conquered by King David and became the capital of the Israelite kingdom. They are mentioned in the Bible as one of the indigenous peoples of the land that the Israelites encountered.
The Jebusites !
The three groups conquered by the Israelites were the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, the Jebusites, and the Perizites.
Proto-Canaanites were the first religious community in Jerusalem.After the Jebusites, the Israelites settled there under King David in 850 BCE.
(Numbers ch.13) Anaqim, Amalekites, Hittites, Jebusites, Emorites, and Canaanites.
Psalm 24 is prasing God after the arks entry into Jerusalem after David took it from the Jebusites.
Since the time of Joshua, though Jebusites controlled the city until the time of King David.
Chapter 7 of Deuteronomy indicates seven nations: Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Perizzites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Archaeology seems to confirm the Biblical Account that before the Israelite conquest of the city, it was ruled by the Canaanite Tribe called the Jebusites.
Jerusalem. It had previously been a Canaanite town under the Jebusites.
Jerusalem or Yerushalayim is also known as the City of David. When King David purchased the city from the Jebusites, he named it the City of David.