Why
did Creator God destroy the people in the promised land!
Funny
you should as?
Why
do the decadents of Canaan want to destroy Israel?
God chose the smallest country in the world,
so His greatness could show through them.
He set His love upon them.
They did not earn His love.
He gave it to them.
This
is the same chapter The Lord establishes a covenant with men and beasts;
that he
will never again drown the whole earth.
And
the token of the covenant is the rainbow.
This
is the same chapter
The Lord establishes a covenant with men and beasts;
that he
will never again drown the whole earth.
And
the token of the covenant is the rainbow.
"When
the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess
it, and hath cast out many nations before thee,
the
Hittites (The Hittites were the dark descendants of
Heth, the second son of Canaan, youngest son of Ham. In the Book of Genesis,
they are declared to be one of the 12 Canaanite nations dwelling inside or
close to Canaan from the time of Abraham up to Ezra’s era)
and
the
Girgashites
(The
Girgashites are descendants of Canaan, son of Ham, son of Noah (Genesis
10:16).
During
the great cadaver vision God promises the land of the Girgashites to Abram. A
few centuries later God gives this land to Israel under Joshua (Joshua
24:11).
And
the
Amorites, and the Canaanites (The Amorites were an
ancient people group frequently listed among the enemies of Israel in the
writings of the Old Testament. Genesis 10:15-16 first mentions the Amorites,
referring to them as descendants of Canaan, son of Ham, the son of Noah (Genesis 10:6). The Amorites
are next found in Genesis 14.)
and
the
Perizzites (Perizzites, which means “villagers” or “dwellers in the open
country,” were one of the people who lived in the Land of Promise. They
are one of the
Nations of Ham
and
the
Hivites (The Hivites were one group of descendants of Canaan, son of Ham,
according to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 (esp. 10:17). Genesis 15:18-21
does not list the Hivites as being in the land that was promised to the
descendants of Abraham. However, some 100 years later, Genesis 36:2
mentions that one.
and
the
Jebusites (The Jebusites are believed to be the descendants of Jebus,
a descendant of
Canaan,
Ham’s son. They were thought to be a warlike people and were mentioned in the
Hebrew Bible as a nation living in the mountains).
seven
nations greater and mightier than thou;")
“Severn
nations”:
Six
of these 7 are mentioned elsewhere (see Exodus 3:8).
The
unique nation here is the Girgashites, who are referred to in (Gen. 10:16;
Joshua 3:10; 24:11; 1 Chron. 1:14), tribal people living in the north of
Palestine.
All
of these people from these 7 nations are idolaters.
God
had promised Abraham 10 nations.
Some
of them were the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites and Rephidim.
(1) The
Canaanites deserved to die for their sin (Gen. 15;16);
(2) The
Canaanites persisted in their hatred of God (7:10);
and
(3) The
Canaanites constituted a moral cancer that had the potential of introducing
idolatry
and
immorality among the Israelites (20:17-18).
