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Christians are often shocked to read that Yahweh, the God of the Israelites, commanded the total destruction—all men, women, and children—of the ethnic group known as the Canaanites. This seems to contradict Jesus’ command in the New Testament to love your enemies and do good to all people. How can Yahweh be the same God as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ? What does genocide in the Bible have...

the streets. A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out” (Isa. 42:2–3). The God revealed in and through Jesus is not one who summons his “warriors to carry out [his] wrath” (13:3); much less does he will the indiscriminate genocidal annihilation of any peoples or nations. He is, rather, “the God of peace” (Rom. 15:33; Phil. 4:9; 1 Thess. 5:23; 2 Thess. 3:16; Heb. 13:20). It is not “holy warriors” who will be called “sons of God” but “peacemakers” (Matt. 5:9). The
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