God’s assurance to bless all nations through Abraham (pbAh) had never been acceptable to the Isra... more God’s assurance to bless all nations through Abraham (pbAh) had never been acceptable to the Israelites. They, therefore, tried to exclude every other nation from the blessings. Canaanites being the strategic and religious rivals of the Israelites in Canaan had to be denounced as slaves and dispossessed from the Land. Lot (pbAh) was denied the prophethood and also blemished with incest only to declare Moabites and the Ammonites as illegitimate sons of Lot (pbAh) to usurp their lands.
God’s assurance to bless all nations through Abraham (pbAh) had never been acceptable to the Isra... more God’s assurance to bless all nations through Abraham (pbAh) had never been acceptable to the Israelites. They, therefore, tried to exclude every other nation from the blessings. Canaanites being the strategic and religious rivals of the Israelites in Canaan had to be denounced as slaves and dispossessed from the Land. Lot (pbAh) was denied the prophethood and also blemished with incest only to declare Moabites and the Ammonites as illegitimate sons of Lot (pbAh) to usurp their lands.
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