Episode 167 - We Often Ask The Wrong Question About The Canaanites

Audio Transcript

This week, I want to talk about a very difficult Old Testament issue, the issue of the commanded destruction of the Canaanites. This is perhaps one of the most thorny Old Testament issues to discuss and to defend God's actions in, because it seems like God has commanded genocide, that God has commanded ethnic cleansing because he commanded Israel to go kill a certain group of people. And so let's look at that text from Deuteronomy 20. We'll just jump right into it.

It says,

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