One of the seven nations of Deuteronomy 7:1, and the one added to the list Genesis 15 gave Abram, where they do not appear. Traced to Canaan at Genesis 10:17 (already on these pages). ⭐ They are the only one of the seven the Bible shows successfully making the treaty this chapter forbids: the Gibeonites, who trick Joshua into a covenant by arriving in worn-out sandals with mouldy bread, are Hivites (Joshua 9, not yet on these pages). Shechem, who takes Dinah at Genesis 34, is also called a Hivite — the one narrative in the Torah that turns on the intermarriage Deuteronomy 7:3 prohibits.