Editing Canaan (section)

====Conquest of Canaan====
{{Further|Deuteronomist#Deuteronomistic history|Seven Nations (Bible)}}

[[Yahweh]] promises the land of Canaan to [[Abraham]] in the [[Book of Genesis]] and eventually delivers it to [[Abraham's family tree|descendants of Abraham]], the [[Israelites]]. The Hebrew Bible describes the Israelite [[Book of Joshua#Entry into the land and conquest .28chapters 2.E2.80.9312.29|conquest of Canaan]] in the "[[Nevi'im#Former Prophets|Former Prophets]]" ({{transliteration|hbo|Nevi'im Rishonim}}, {{Script/Hebrew|נביאים ראשונים}}), viz. the books of [[Book of Joshua|Joshua]], [[Book of Judges|Judges]], [[Books of Samuel|Samuel]], and [[Books of Kings|Kings]]. These books give the narrative of the Israelites after the death of [[Moses]] and their entry into Canaan under the leadership of [[Joshua]].<ref>The Making of the Old Testament Canon. by Lou H. Silberman, The Interpreter's One-Volume Commentary on the Bible. Abingdon Press&nbsp;– Nashville 1971–1991, p1209</ref> The renaming of the [[Land of Canaan]] as the [[Land of Israel]] marks the [[Israelites|Israelite]] [[Book of Joshua#Entry into the land and conquest .28chapters 2.E2.80.9312.29|conquest]] of the [[Promised Land]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Land of Israel: National Home Or Land of Destiny |first=Eliezer |last=Schweid |translator-first=Deborah |translator-last=Greniman |year=1985 |publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |isbn=978-0-8386-3234-5 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/landofisraelnati00schw/page/16 16–17] |quote=... let us begin by examining the kinds of assertions about the land of Israel that we encounter in {{as written|pe|rsuing [sic]}} the books of the Bible. ... A third kind of assertion deals with the history of the Land of Israel. Before its settlement by the Israelite tribes, it is called The Land of Canaan |url=https://archive.org/details/landofisraelnati00schw/page/16 }}</ref>

The Canaanites ({{Hebrew Name|כנענים|Kna'anim|Kənaʻănîm}}) are said to have been one of seven "nations" driven out by the [[Israelites]] following [[the Exodus]]. The other nations were the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the [[Perizzites]], the [[Hivites]], and the [[Jebusites]] ({{bibleverse|Deuteronomy|7:1|NIV}}). One of the [[613 commandments]] prescribes that no inhabitants of the cities of six Canaanite nations, the same as mentioned in 7:1, minus the [[List of minor biblical tribes#G|Girgashites]], were to be left alive. ({{bibleverse|Deuteronomy|20:16|NIV}}).