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50 And the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 51 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their figured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places. 53 And you shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it. 54 You shall inherit the land by lot according to your clans. To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance. Wherever the lot falls for anyone, that shall be his. According to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit. 55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.
The Holy Bible : English standard version. 2001 (Nu 33:50–55). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.

There were a few places in which Joshua disobeyed the above instruction from God. I have not personally done the research to verify this, but I heard in a sermon that if you look at a biblical-time map of where Joshua allowed the inhabitants to stay, then transpose those locations onto a modern map, the places equate to the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the Golan Heights.

Has anyone here personally researched this point? I strongly suspect that Joshua's disobedience on this commandment is exactly where the "Palestinian" issue tracks back to, but I'd love to see this kind of correlation on a map myself.

MM

http://www.imninalu.net/myths-pals.htm

I found this essay interesting, written by Joseph Farrah (?)

True history? I can not say that, only interesting.

Joshua 9 is the record of the Gibeonite deception. In Judges 2:20 - 23, the recording of the Canaanites being a snare for the lack of faithfulness is prophesized.