Most of these people groups were involved with the worship of false gods. According to some scholars, these false gods weren’t just imaginary beings. They were the angelic beings from God’s heavenly council known as “sons of God” that we mentioned earlier. These beings often played a role in God’s decision making and were used to carry out God’s plans. But they rebelled against God and were then assigned by God to geographic areas.* It is believed that possibly several of the sons of God who were in the divine counsel became the various gods that accepted worship from the Canaanites and other
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