Bloodthirsty Joshua
The first leader to take over after Moses passed was Joshua. He was Moses's assistant and one of the 12 spies that Moses sent out to scout out Canaan, probably trying to assess the likelihood of invading it and taking it over. Moses had planned his Exodus from Egypt and knew that he would have to build an army and then find a place to live. Moses part was building the army... and he did a good job. He wound up with about 8000 soldiers made up of Israelites and peripheral groups that joined the cause.Joshua turned out to be a brilliant military strategist, but he was also demonic in his treatment of his enemies. His first attack was on Jericho - a small city with only about 800 soldiers - no match for Joshua's force of 8000. When he defeated Jericho, he carried out an invasion in which his men were ordered to kill everything that breathed. So, women, children, dogs, cattle, birds, and any other breathing creature was put to the sword.
The people he was attacking and slaughtering had done nothing to him. They just had the bad luck to be living in the area that God had promised to the Jews. The area that Moses carefully scouted out, so God knew just which area to give them. Actually, it sounds similar to Hitler's attempts at expansion.
This is the God that everyone today thinks is so loving and kind! Ha. What a load of bull!
