Joshua 10-12

Joshua 11:20 is a disturbing passage for me. Why would the God who sent Jesus to die for all people annihilate a group of people without mercy? I thInk we tend to minimalize the immorality of those people God told Joshua to kill. These were people who extended no mercy to anyone else. They victimized the weak and offered justIce to no one. Those whom Israel destroyed in the Promised Land were not innocent people. They were barbaric in all that they did. They could have responded as Rahab did, but their desires were selfish above all else. They refused redemption.
Stuart