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many nations. … And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the<br />

land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an<br />

everlasting possession; and I will be their God. And God said unto<br />

Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore … Every man child<br />

among you shall be circumcised … and it shall be a token of the covenant<br />

betwixt me and you. And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised<br />

among you, every man child in your generations...<br />

A final ill-fitting characteristic of the Israelites explained by the<br />

Anatolian compression is that their Semitic background was one of<br />

accommodation rather than subjugation. While the Indo-Hittites and<br />

particularly the Indo-Iranians were at their best wading knee-deep through<br />

blood in their campaigns, ethnic cleansing was unusual amongst the Afro-<br />

Asiatics and Semites. For example, the Semites of King Sargon I merged<br />

with subject populations in Sumer rather than eliminating them.<br />

Much later King David chose not to eliminate Semitic<br />

populations in and around Jerusalem but to merge with them. In doing<br />

this, he countermanded Yahweh's specific order. Yahweh had ruthlessly<br />

rattled the sabers of the Israelites as they departed Egypt for Canaan. He<br />

directed them to mercilessly murder the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the elite<br />

Hurrian Jebusites, and those of nearby cities:<br />

<strong>The</strong>n ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before<br />

you, … And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell<br />

therein: for I have given you the land to possess it. 327<br />

But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give<br />

thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: But<br />

thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the<br />

Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the Lord<br />

thy God hath commanded thee … 328<br />

<strong>The</strong> Hivites (Hebrew chry) are the Horites (Hebrew chwy) and<br />

more generally Achaeans or Hurrians. 329 In other cities on the fringe of<br />

the new state, Yahweh directed the Israelites to exact tribute or kill the<br />

men and take the women and children as slaves:<br />

And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands,<br />

thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: But the<br />

women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even<br />

all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself. 330<br />

David acted to the contrary and with impunity from Yahweh. In<br />

fact, there is little archeological evidence to support the conquest of<br />

Canaan by Joshua and the Israelites. All destruction in Palestine accrues<br />

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