The Conquest of Canaan

Dan Kloppenborg gave me an excellent map of the conquest of Canaan:

For you fans of bloodshed and violence, these have been banner days, but pay special attention to Joshua 11:15, where the Lord clearly commanded Joshua to completely annihilate these cities and their peoples, and 11:20, where it was the Lord who hardened the hearts of the kings of these cities to cause them to fight the Israelites in the first place. It ain't pretty and we might not understand it, but the one thing we know for sure was that it wasn't blood thirst on the part of the Israelites, but the will of the Lord that it be done. Now that the land has been conquered, we'll see what the people do in gratitude.