According to the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament), when God called forth his people out of slavery in Egypt and back to the land of their forefathers, he directed them to kill all the Canaanite clans who were living in the land (Deut. God had warned them against that (Deut. He is passionate about understanding the Bible and helping others do the same. God was patient with the Canaanites Just as God had demonstrated his knowledge of who would repent in the Canaanite cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, before he destroyed Jerusalem He told Jeremiah that if He could find even one righteous person He would spare the entire city (Jer. This news had terrified the city of Jericho and Rahab had put her faith in God (Joshua 2:10-14). Israel was warned not to let the Canaanites live in their land, but to completely destroy them (Exod. Covenant Theological Seminary) serves as an assistant pastor at Riveroaks Reformed Presbyterian Church in Germantown, Tennessee. 12:4, 30, 31 ). God's Justice in the Land of Canaan - The Gospel Coalition 2. Why did God judge the Canaanites as wicked despite never appearing to them or giving them law? 1 Chronicles 16:11 Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his presence continually! Capital Punishment Reason 4 That we commit similar sins today renders us incapable of appropriate moral outrage against these sins and thus we accuse God of genocide to justify our own sinfulness. The Bible is explicit concerning the sins of the Canaanites: idolatry, incest, adultery, child sacrifice, homosexuality, and bestiality. Can these be put together? I consider Jesus the be the perfect example of how to be good, Jesus would never hurt anyone. What if there are fifty righteous people in the city?Far be it from you to do such a thingto kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. [Ed. When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you, and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Canaan, because of its sin, was to be heremdevoted to destruction. In Genesis 15:16 the LORD made reference to the Canaanites when he said, "the sin of the Amorites (Canaanites) has not yet reached its full measure." God was waiting to fulfill his justice against this people. If they did not destroy them, the land would vomit them out just as it had vomited out the Canaanites (Num. In the Hebrew Bible, the Canaanites are described as inhabitants of Canaan before the arrival of the Israelites (e.g., Genesis 15:18-21, Exodus 13:11). Christian Answers, There is no denying that God, in the Old Testament, commanded the nation of Israel, His chosen people, to exterminate many nations of people. Revelation 2:21-23. We all recognize this when we accuse some authority who presumes to take life as playing GodGod is under no obligation whatsoever to extend my life for another second.