Deus Misereatur

The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest: Covenant, Retribution, and the Fate of the Canaanites John H. Walton and J. Harvey Walton InterVarsity Press (IVP Academic) PO Box 1400 Downers Grove, IL 60515 Ivpress.com ISBN: 978-0-8308-5184-3; July 2017; $20.00 It is a piece of the biblical story that has inflamed some, incensed others, embarrassed many, and baffled not a few. What does one do with the violent conquest of Canaan by Israel? John H. Walton, professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College and Graduate School, and J. Harvey Walton, researcher in biblical studies, have assembled suggestions that map out one way to read the conquest narratives in their recently published 288 page paperback “The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest: Covenant, Retribution, and the Fate of the Canaanites”. This compilation is one more installment in the multivolume “Lost World” series spearheaded by John Walton. The present work slowly moves the technical and non-technical reader through twenty-...

Praise the LORD! Thank you that you have made us a crown of beauty and a royal diadem in your hand, O LORD. Thank you that we shall no more be termed Forsaken or Desolate , but shall be called My Delight Is in Her and Married . Thank you, LORD, that you delight in us and that as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride you rejoice over us (Isaiah 62.3-5)! We pray, Lord, that you would have mercy on all of the nations of this earth, to include Angola; Antigua and Barbuda; Argentina; and Armenia . O God, you reign over the nations; you sit on your holy throne. May all of the princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to you, O God; you are highly exalted (Psalm 47.8-9)! We pray, Lord, that you would have mercy on these United States of America. We pray what all of our brothers and sisters pray for their lands and nations: God, bless America , but not her sin and immorality. God, bless America , but not where she is u...