Why did god command the Israelites to kill all the Canaanites?

Question

Numbers 33:50-53

Answer 1

that scripture God said to drive them out. If their was going to be a battle then they were to fight to claim back the land for God would be with them.

In the bible God has told the Israelites to kill every living thing, meaning man,women,child, and live stock. God also said to not even keep the plunder for it is defiled and not to be claimed by God's people. These people where such sin filled, God hating, heartless people that God passed just judgment upon them and ordered to destroy them all. To say children too, seems over to be over kill, but if you look at it this way. A extreme Nazi or KKK leader of the most vile kind raised their children like minded. They did not teach their children to have any other belief than their own. God knew this and instead of allowing them to grow up knowing what happened to their people and revolt against the Israelites later God gave them mercy and claimed the "innocent" vile children for they were not yet fully accountable for themselves yet and children too young for accountability go to heaven. God knows the heart of everyone and if the children were not worthy of mercy then they also deserved their fate.

Answer 2

It is funny how some answers get picky about words.

If I said to you "collateral damage", you'd be pretty clear what it means...

Jesus and the apostles founded the Nazarenes.
http://one-faith-of-god.org/new_testament/apocrypha/nazarenes/nazarenes_0010.htm

Paul of Tarsus and the Sadducee Jewish High Priests formed the parasitic religion of christianity including the false scriptures listed as the "Bible", especially the New Testament. See:
http://one-faith-of-god.org/new_testament/apocrypha/founders_christianity/founders_christianity_0010.htm

The Nazarenes believed the "god" of the old testament, the "jealous god", the "venegeful god" was not god at all but satan pretending to be god.

So the answer could simply be to create misery and mayhem.

Answer 3

The book of Numbers, verses 50-52, of the New American Bible state:

The LORD spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab beside the Jericho stretch of the Jordan and said to him:

"Tell the Israelites: When you go across the Jordan into the land of Canaan, drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you; destroy all their stone figures and molten images, and demolish all their high places.?

http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/numbers/numbers33.htm#50

Nowhere does it mention kill.

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

It does not say to kill them at this passage it says to drive them away.