Where do people come up with this nonsense that the Israelites completely wiped out the Canaanites? They were to be driven out a little at time, some made treaties with the Israelites, but they were never wiped out.
Even at the time of David there were still original Canaanites in the land.
Yep there was some left but there wasn’t supposed to be. We see how that worked out.
In her August 3, 2017, Federalist article, "Media Falsely Claim DNA Evidence Refutes Scripture," Mollie Hemingway reviews and links to the media claims. Mollie states, in part:
Of the many things that journalists are ignorant of, religion is at the top of the list. I like to collect examples of biblical illiteracy. The Associated Press once gave William Butler Yeats credit for writing Hebrews. The New York Times said that Easter marks the resurrection of Jesus … into heaven.Mollie then goes on to explain in references and passages from the Old Testament what the Bible actually states.
The past few days have seen a flurry of articles claiming that a new archeological find disputes the scriptural account of the Canaanites....
The only problem being, of course, that all of these stories are wrong about what the Bible claims regarding the annihilation of the Canaanites.
Some of the media outlets above slightly revised or outright corrected their stories. All were too willing to accept the assumptions in the original study, which made misleading claims about what scripture teaches regarding Canaanites.
"It could not be more clear. Over and over and over again, we’re told that the Canaanites survived."The Biblical illiteracy begins with the authors (and all of the reviewers and journal editors) of the scientific paper, "Continuity and admixture in the last five millennia of Levantine history from ancient Canaanite and present-day Lebanese genome sequences," (Marc Haber, et al., The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 101, Issue 2, pp. 274–282, 3 August 2017, online 27 July 2017), which states (p. 275):
"Uncertainties also surround the fate of the Canaanites: the Bible reports the destruction of the Canaanite cities and the annihilation of its people; if true, the Canaanites could not have directly contributed genetically to present-day populations."The authors provided no reference to the Scriptures for their assertion.