GOD's war against Canaanites

 

Deuteronomy 4:39-40

King James Version

39 Know therefore this day, 

and consider it in thine heart, 

that the Lord he is God in heaven above, 

and upon the earth beneath: 

there is none else.

40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, 

and his commandments, 

which I command thee this day, 

that it may go well with thee, 

and with thy children after thee, 

and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, 

which the Lord thy God giveth thee, 

for ever.

GOD is always consistent.

He wanted Canaanites wiped out.

If we think that's a terrible thing, let us hear GOD out.

We are treading on HOLY ground here.

We must understand the context.

That is the objective of this blog.

The LORD sent the flood, wiping out all wickedness from earth.

Except for Noah, who had three sons.

One was Ham, who begat Canaan.

Through Canaan, the Canaanites descended.

Through Canaan, the Canaanites were cursed.

It's time we knew what GOD thought of the Canaanites.

And what He wanted His chosen people to do.

Zechariah spoke of GOD's desire in the "day of the Lord":

Zechariah 14:21

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21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah 

shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts: 

and all they that sacrifice 

shall come and take of them, 

and seethe therein: 

and in that day 

there shall be no more the Canaanite 

in the house of the Lord of hosts.

GOD commanded Moses to do these:

Deuteronomy 7:1-2

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7 When the Lord thy God shall bring thee 

into the land whither thou goest to possess it, 

and hath cast out many nations before thee, 

the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, 

and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, 

and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, 

seven nations greater and mightier than thou;

2 And when the Lord thy God 

shall deliver them before thee; 

thou shalt smite them, 

and utterly destroy them; 

thou shalt make no covenant with them, 

nor shew mercy unto them:

Deuteronomy 7:3

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3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them;

 thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, 

nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

Deuteronomy 7:5

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5 But thus shall ye deal with them; 

ye shall destroy their altars, 

and break down their images, 

and cut down their groves, 

and burn their graven images with fire.

Deuteronomy 7:16

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16 And thou shalt consume all the people 

which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee; 

thine eye shall have no pity upon them: 

neither shalt thou serve their gods; 

for that will be a snare unto thee.

Deuteronomy 7:17-19

King James Version

17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, 

These nations are more than I; 

how can I dispossess them?

18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: 

but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God 

did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;

19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, 

and the signs, and the wonders, 

and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, 

whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: 

so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people 

of whom thou art afraid.

Deuteronomy 7:20-21

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20 Moreover the Lord thy God 

will send the hornet among them, 

until they that are left, 

and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: 

for the Lord thy God is among you, 

a mighty God and terrible.

Deuteronomy 7:22-23

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22 And the Lord thy God will put out those nations 

before thee by little and little: 

thou mayest not consume them at once, 

lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

23 But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, 

and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, 

until they be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 7:24

King James Version

24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, 

and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: 

there shall no man be able to stand before thee, 

until thou have destroyed them.

Deuteronomy 20:16-17

King James Version

16 But of the cities of these people, 

which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, 

thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; 

namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, 

the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, 

the Hivites, and the Jebusites; 

as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee:

Why does GOD want the Canaanites destroyed?

Why doesn't He want them in His house?

Why will they be "cleared" from His house?

We shall find out on the next post.

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The cursed Canaan

 

Acts 24:16

King James Version

16 And herein do I exercise myself, 

to have always a conscience void to offence 

toward God, and toward men.

Canaan received a curse from his grandfather, Noah.

Why was Canaan cursed, instead of his father, Ham?

Is that why GOD doesn't want any Canaanite in His house?

Has GOD always known how descendants of Ham, and Canaan, would be?

Let's get the context, through these verses:

Genesis 9:20-24

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20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, 

and he planted a vineyard:

21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; 

and he was uncovered within his tent.

22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, 

saw the nakedness of his father, 

and told his two brethren without.

23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, 

and laid it upon both their shoulders, 

and went backward, 

and covered the nakedness of their father; 

and their faces were backward, 

and they saw not their father's nakedness.

24 And Noah awoke from his wine, 

and knew what his younger son 

had done unto him.

After that incident, Noah cursed Canaan, instead of Ham:

Genesis 9:25-27

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25 And he said, 

Cursed be Canaan; 

a servant of servants shall he be 

unto his brethren.

26 And he said, 

Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; 

and Canaan shall be his servant.

27 God shall enlarge Japheth, 

and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; 

and Canaan shall be his servant.

Many scholars have come up with reasons why Noah got angry at Ham.

And why Noah cursed his grandson, Canaan, instead.

One notable study was given by Don Stewart:

"Why Was Canaan Cursed Instead of Ham?"

Perhaps, this verse may explain the puzzle:

Numbers 14:18

King James Version

18 The Lord is longsuffering, 

and of great mercy, 

forgiving iniquity and transgression, 

and by no means clearing the guilty, 

visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children 

unto the third and fourth generation.

That explains Canaan bearing the iniquity of his father, Ham.

And all other generations after him.

And yet, another verse comes to mind:

Ezekiel 18:20

King James Version

20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. 

The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, 

neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: 

the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, 

and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

Following that route, we gather that Noah (the father) shall not "bear the iniquity of the son" (Ham).

It also says "The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father".

Why did Canaan bear his father's "iniquity"?

Perhaps, these verses will explain GOD's decision, through Noah:

Isaiah 46:10

King James Version

10 Declaring the end from the beginning, 

and from ancient times 

the things that are not yet done, 

saying, 

My counsel shall stand, 

and I will do all my pleasure:

GOD is all-knowing.

He knows the "end from the beginning".

He knows the "things that are not yet done".

All our hearts are transparent before GOD.

All our souls belong to GOD.

Ezekiel 18:4

King James Version

4 Behold, 

all souls are mine; 

as the soul of the father, 

so also the soul of the son is mine: 

the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

As born again, I trust the will, ways, and wisdom of GOD.

Isaiah 55:8-9

King James Version

8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, 

neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, 

so are my ways higher than your ways, 

and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Through that curse, the Canaanites were destined to be destroyed.

GOD declared war upon them.

What did He command Moses to do?

What did He instruct Zechariah to say?

An amazing set of verses tell us more.

Click here for the next post.

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Nimrod and Babel

 

Proverbs 16:18

King James Version

18 Pride goeth before destruction, 

and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Herein begins the series on Canaanite "sins".

Starting with Nimrod.

Who was he?

Genesis 10:8

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8 And Cush begat Nimrod: 

he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

What did he accomplish?

Genesis 10:9-10

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9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: 

wherefore it is said, 

Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.

10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, 

and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, 

in the land of Shinar.

What made Babel sin against GOD?

Genesis 11:1-2

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11 And the whole earth was of one language, 

and of one speech.

2 And it came to pass, 

as they journeyed from the east,

 that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; 

and they dwelt there.

Genesis 11:3

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3 And they said one to another, 

Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. 

And they had brick for stone, 

and slime had they for morter.

Genesis 11:4

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4 And they said, 

Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, 

whose top may reach unto heaven; 

and let us make us a name, 

lest we be scattered abroad 

upon the face of the whole earth.

Genesis 11:5-7

King James Version

5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, 

which the children of men builded.

6 And the Lord said, 

Behold, 

the people is one, 

and they have all one language; 

and this they begin to do: 

and now nothing will be restrained from them, 

which they have imagined to do.

7 Go to, let us go down, 

and there confound their language, 

that they may not understand 

one another's speech.

Genesis 11:8

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8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence 

upon the face of all the earth: 

and they left off to build the city.

Genesis 11:9

King James Version

9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; 

because the Lord did there confound 

the language of all the earth: 

and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad 

upon the face of all the earth.

The timeline:

Genesis 11:1-10

10 These are the generations of Shem*: 

Shem was an hundred years old, 

and begat Arphaxad 

two years after the flood:

Now, we turn to Canaan, son of Ham.

Who got cursed by Noah, in place of his father.

We puzzled over it, momentarily.

Until SPIRIT helped me figure it out.

It's important to know how Canaan was cursed.

For the future of all Canaanites hung upon it.

Click here for the next post.

*NOTE:

Shem's son was Arphaxad.

Arphaxad's son was Salah.

Shelah (Salah) → EBER (founder of the Hebrews) → Peleg → Reu → Serug → Nahor → Terah → ABRAHAM (Abram)

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ORIGIN of Canaanites

 

Genesis 9:18-19

King James Version

18 And the sons of Noah, 

that went forth of the ark, 

were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: 

and Ham is the father of Canaan.

19 These are the three sons of Noah: 

and of them was the whole earth overspread.

Noah had three sons.

Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

From the three, Ham is the father of Canaan.

Whom the Canaanites descended from.

Genesis 10:6

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6 And the sons of Ham; 

Cush, and Mizraim, 

and Phut, and Canaan.

Genesis 10:7-12

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7 And the sons of Cush; 

Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, 

and Raamah, and Sabtechah: 

and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

8 And Cush begat Nimrod: 

he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: 

wherefore it is said, 

Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.

10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, 

and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, 

in the land of Shinar.

11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, 

and builded Nineveh, 

and the city Rehoboth, 

and Calah,

12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: 

the same is a great city.

Genesis 10:13-14

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13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, 

and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

14 And Pathrusim, 

and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) 

and Caphtorim.

Genesis 10:15-18

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15 And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,

16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,

17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, 

and the Hamathite: 

and afterward were the families of the Canaanites 

spread abroad.

Genesis 10:19

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19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, 

as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; 

as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, 

and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

Genesis 10:20

King James Version

20 These are the sons of Ham, 

after their families, 

after their tongues, 

in their countries, 

and in their nations.

Nimrod plays an important part, being the son of Cush.

Know how he, and his people, sinned against the LORD.

Click here for the next post.

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