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Podcast: Gilbert House Fellowship
Episode: The Anakim War
Description: THE CONQUEST of Canaan was a war to drive the Anakim out of the hill country of Judah and Israel.This week, we discuss Joshua’s two campaigns in Canaan, against coalitions of Amorites, Perizzites (Philistines), Hittites, Hivites (Mycenaean Greeks), and Jebusites (probably Hurrians). We explain how the deception of the Gibeonites was perceived by the Amorite kings in the south as a divide-and-conquer maneuver by Israel, and why the Anakim were a warrior elite who venerated the Rephaim (spirits of the Nephilim; i.e., demons).In our book Veneration, we explain why we be...