29 Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against Libnah. 30 And the Lord gave it also and its king into the hand of Israel. And he struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it; he left none remaining in it. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.
31 Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Libnah to Lachish and laid siege to it and fought against it. 32 And the Lord gave Lachish into the hand of Israel, and he captured it on the second day and struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it, as he had done to Libnah.
33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish. And Joshua struck him and his people, until he left none remaining.
34 Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Lachish to Eglon. And they laid siege to it and fought against it. 35 And they captured it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. And he devoted every person in it to destruction that day, as he had done to Lachish.
36 Then Joshua and all Israel with him went up from Eglon to Hebron. And they fought against it 37 and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword, and its king and its towns, and every person in it. He left none remaining, as he had done to Eglon, and devoted it to destruction and every person in it.
38 Then Joshua and all Israel with him turned back to Debir and fought against it 39 and he captured it with its king and all its towns. And they struck them with the edge of the sword and devoted to destruction every person in it; he left none remaining. Just as he had done to Hebron and to Libnah and its king, so he did to Debir and to its king.
40 So Joshua struck the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but devoted to destruction all that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel commanded. 41 And Joshua struck them from Kadesh-barnea as far as Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, as far as Gibeon. 42 And Joshua captured all these kings and their land at one time, because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel. 43 Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.
— Joshua 10:29-43, English Standard Version
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yep.
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the Hebrews were doing racial supremacy and genocide thousands of years before Adolph was born.
The difference is, back then, God commanded it for a REASON, and He explicated precisely why.
There is no justification for it in the modern day.
you need to be careful though. there is a BIG difference between something being written in the Bible and what is True. just because a Hebrew in the OT does something doesn’t mean he was doing it because God wanted it done. as for instance when the patriarchs of the 12 tribes got together and threw Joseph in a pit because they were childishly spiteful and jealous.
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note that i’m not asserting that God did not tell the Hebrews to annihilate certain cities; He not only wanted various tribes eliminated, if you take the Flood seriously, God “genocided” most of the planet Himself at one point.
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the root problem is the sin of Moses explicated earlier. God said that He would use the Jews as a tool to redeem His creation. the Jews assert that THEY are going to redeem the creation that God screwed up.
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when Moses was striking the rock his statement, at minimum, elevated Aaron and himself to being co-equals with God in the work of bringing forth water from the rock. it could be taken as Moses elevating himself and his brother above God in bringing forth the water.
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God did / does not “need” someone else to do something for Him. He is sufficient of Himself.