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In the Book of Deuteronomy (20:17) God instructs the Israelites to commit genocide ("utterly destroy them") the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites in the Promised Land. What archaeological evidence do we have of their destruction ("save alive nothing that breatheth")?

by /u/Paulie_Gatto in /r/AskHistorians

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