[In Deuteronomy 20:17], God commanded the ancient Israelites to “utterly destroy” the Canaanites, among other peoples. And the disappearance of the the latter group from history suggested some truth to the story.
Fewer stories in the Bible create problems like the supposed Canaanite genocide creates. How could “God’s nation” completely slaughter an entire people group? How is it loving to one’s neighbor to kill all of them? Why would God make them do such a thing?
Unbelievers have asked such questions for years. A new genetic study, however, may force the skeptics to rethink their strategy, for scientists have recently discovered that the Canaanites were not wiped out after all.
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Author: Benjamin L. Corey
Keywords: Canaanites, Genocide, Utter destruction, Annihilation, utterly destroy, utterly destroyed, exterminate, extermination, destroy utterly, total destruction, totally wipe out, wipe out, wipe out the Canaanites, totally destroy, ethnic cleansing, wiping out the Canaanites
Bible reference(s): Exodus 23:23, Num 21:2-3, Deu 2:34, Deu 3:6, Deu 7:2, Deu 12:2, Deu 13:15, Deu 20:17, Numbers 33:52, Deuteronomy 20:16-17, Jos 2:10, Joshua 3:10, Jos 2:10, Jos 6:21, Jos 8:26, Jos 10, Jos 11, Joshua 16:10, Joshua 17:16, Jdg 1:17, Jdg 21:11, 1Sa 15:3, 1Sa 15:8-9, 1Sa 15:15, 1Sa 15:18, 1Sa 15:20-21, 1Ki 9:21, 1Ki 20:42, 1Ch 4:41, 2Ch 20:23, 2Ch 31:1, 2Ch 32:14, Mat 15:22
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