Among the many tribal groups that occupied Canaan before the Israelites dispossessed them were the people known as Hivites (Gen 10:15-17; Exod 3:8; 23:28; Deut 7:1; Josh 3:10). They lived mainly in the mountain country of northern Palestine and Lebanon (Josh 11:3; Judg 3:3; 2 Sam 24:6-7), though some lived in Shechem and others as far south as Gibeon (Gen 34:2; Josh 9:3,7; 11:19). They were among the many Canaanite tribal peoples used as slaves in Solomon’s building programs (1 Kings 9:20-21). Like other Canaanite groups they were eventually absorbed into Israel.