then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.
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then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.
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Questions where the Bible appears to say two different things, with the passages on each side set together.
The Pentateuch and Joshua give four incompatible answers about what Israel was to do with the Canaanites. God promises to drive them out himself via hornets and an angel (Exodus 23, 33-34; Josh 3, 13, 23).
Critical scholarship: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction.
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"Numbers 33:52 — Scripture Analysis" GEBible, https://gebible.app/analysis/verse/numbers/33/52?version=WEB (retrieved 27 August 2026).