Critics have claimed the Conquest of Canaan is an example of divinely commanded genocide or ethnic cleansing. In my latest podcast episode (#193), I argue that the rationale for the Conquest had nothing to do with race or ethnicity, and is not an example of genocide. It was not an ethnic cleansing, but a moral cleansing of the land. It was mass capital punishment on those who were guilty of gross immorality. And it’s not even true that everyone was killed. God was more concerned about expelling the Canaanites from the land and destroying their religious influence on the Israelites than He was in killing the Canaanites.

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