Conquest of Canaan
187Purple Dye and Child Sacrifice
1 Apr 2024
22:43¶ 66
“I think at this point we do have to say something along the issue of genocide. This is where some people will perk up…”
23:07¶ 68
“We’ll recap a little bit of it. The first thing, of course, that we have to understand – and this is really hard for…”
23:29¶ 69
“Furthermore, it was hardly a surprise attack. The children of Canaan had known ever since the exodus that Israel was coming, and God gave…”
80Othniel and Achsah
23 Aug 2021
16:39¶ 60
“But that’s not nearly enough because lots of people are brave warriors. These are giants. This is Canaan. This is the Promised Land. The…”
25:26¶ 93
“Caleb no doubt looked around and he picked what he thought was doable. He did not say, “Go devise the first textbook on physics.…”
10:50¶ 42
“When he comes into the land, and it’s not included here, although we get the tail end of it, but he comes straight to…”
76The Theology of the Conquest
26 Jul 2021
2:30¶ 12
“When we look at the Torah, particularly Deuteronomy, though it begins as early as Exodus, and Joshua, we see God’s commands to Israel to…”
2:51¶ 13
“The first thing is that although he says basically, “Kill them. Kill them all,” it’s in the conquest of, “Kill them if they don’t…”
3:05¶ 15
“Yeah, they’re being removed from the land. If they all wanted to pack up and leave, then God did not say, “And go hunt…”
35Polytheism and Pluralism (part 1)
30 Aug 2020
49:00¶ 161
“First of all, anybody who didn’t leave – and a lot of people left; a lot of the Canaanites fled – but any of…”
52:43¶ 180
“The pagan world at least pretends not to get that. There’s a great deal in a pagan culture or Muslim culture or Shinto culture…”
53:04¶ 181
“Canaan was saturated with magic and idolatry and abominable things, and yet God let them use an awful lot of it. What they had…”
33Song of Moses
16 Aug 2020
19:13¶ 89
“The whole invasion and conquest of Canaan is something that old and new atheists alike have often condemned. Is God being a bit wholesale…”
19:27¶ 91
“We can turn and say, “By whose standards are you judging God?” but we can also say, “Historically, no, that’s not exactly what happened.…”
21:36¶ 105
“It’s God’s land. He’s the sovereign land holder and they got plenty of warning. In fact, they got an extra generation, those 40 years.…”
20A Bond in Blood
17 May 2020
29:33¶ 105
“And yet when it’s time for them to cross the Jordan with Passover coming on, they do go across. They’re right in Jericho, the…”
29:58¶ 107
“Not prepared for battle. They had to trust that God would take care of them, because this rite, this symbol, which acknowledged their membership…”
30:26¶ 108
“Really, for about the first time in human history, in addition to his own sovereign power and the angelic host and what we call…”