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This web site is no longer being updated. The new updated site (without ads) can be found at: Bible Issues Israel’s Invasion Of Canaan
Many people have difficulty accepting the Bible’s account of Israel’s invasion of Canaan. If God is love, how could he order Israel to wipe them out? First we must see why the Bible called the Canaanites evil. Second, a study of the verses reveals a very different story. God did not issue a command for genocide, and Israel did not slay all the Canaanites. Canaanite EvilFour hundred years before Israel the Bible first mentions the Canaanites in Genesis 15:16. God was watching their growing evil. Their behaviour and religion were both wicked. Genesis 18:16-19:29 tells the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, two cities in Canaan where gangs and swarms attacked people for fun. This evil behaviour was later picked up by the tribe of Benjamin (Judges 18:9-21). It so incensed the rest of Israel they fought a war that almost wiped out the Benjaminites. Canaanite religion involved child sacrifice. It was a practice that increased the more their cities expanded. Unlike other ancient civilizations where such practices died out, the Canaanites perpetuated it.
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