Midweek: “Does God command the Israelites to commit genocide?”
October 19, 2016 Speaker: Robert Ward Series: Midweek: “Hard Sayings of the Bible” (Fall 2016)
Passage: Deuteronomy 7:1–26
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In the third of our six-part series on difficult teachings of Scripture, Robert Ward considers the words of Deuteronomy 7 and Joshua 6, in which the Lord commands Israel to wipe out entire peoples, specifically the Canaanites. Is God sanctioning genocide?

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