Its surprising that, so soon after the flood, the tribes were starting to go off the deep end again, as if the flood had never happened.
It looks to me that Canaan’s tribe were supposed to have gone further south into Egypt and North Africa to settle, but had settled on land that was set aside for Shem’s clan, which would be Abraham’s family. As it is, when Abraham went to Canaan in the beginning, he did so peacefully and was (mostly) accepted peacefully.
They later settled in Egypt due to the famine, and then settled in to stay. Again, they were never supposed to be in Egypt, Canaan was land promised to them, not Egypt. So while Abraham was able to settle there peacefully, when they came back centuries later they had to fight their way in.
When Israel returned they were told to drive Canaan out completely. They didn’t, so the survivors settled around and amongst them. This was in part the source of problems later. They were ordered not to intermarry with them, but again, that was ignored and was the source of problems later.
“Its surprising that, so soon after the flood, the tribes were starting to go off the deep end again, as if the flood had never happened.
It looks to me that Canaan’s tribe
were supposed to have gone further
south into Egypt and North Africa
to settle, but had settled on land
that was set aside for Shem’s clan,
which would be Abraham’s family. As
it is, when Abraham went to Canaan
in the beginning, he did so peacefully
and was (mostly) accepted peacefully.
They later settled in Egypt due to the
famine, and then settled in to stay.
Again, they were never supposed to be
in Egypt, Canaan was land promised to
them, not Egypt. So while Abraham was
able to settle there peacefully, when
they came back centuries later they
had to fight their way in.
When Israel returned they were told to
drive Canaan out completely. They didn’t,
so the survivors settled around and
amongst them. This was in part the
source of problems later. They were
ordered not to intermarry with them,
but again, that was ignored and was
the source of problems later”___Marron
Interesting post.
Thanks.
I believe the general term Canaanities was
applied to a wide variety of tribes living
at that time. The command to “totally destroy”
them only applied to 6 of those tribes. And
the absolute total” destruction was never
actually carried out because you see some
of those 6 tribes appearing later in the
Old Testament.
I think I listed those 6 tribes in my OP.