Hivites

They were looking for peace because they didn't want to be destroyed.

But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, perhaps you live among us.

Then how can we make a covenant with you? Because if they live close by, they were supposed to be destroyed.

So they said to Joshua, we are your servants.

The hornet puts men in fear, not so as to bring the heart into a sweet compliance with his terror, but so as to stir up the spirit into acts of opposition and resistance, yet withal they flee before it.

I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, etc.

Exodus 23 verse 28 now this fear whether it be ruled by misapprehending of the judgments of god as in the israelites or otherwise as in the canaanites yet ungodliness is the effect thereof and therefore i call it an ungodly fear of god for it stirreth up murmurings discontents and heart risings against god while he with his dispensations is dealing with them second there is a fear of god that driveth a man away from god i speak not now of the atheist nor of the pleasurable sinner nor yet of these and that fear that i spoke of just now i speak now of such who through a sense of sin and of god's justice fly from him of a slavish ungodly fear this ungodly fear was that which possessed adam's heart in the day that he did eat of the tree concerning which the lord had said unto him in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die for then he was possessed with such a fear of god as made him to seek to hide himself from his presence

You know what? It sucks to be bored.

And Joshua said, Here is how you shall know.

that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, the Amorites, and Jebusites.

Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is passing over before you into the Jordan.

Now therefore, take 12 men from the tribes of Israel, from each tribe one man.

Onto a land flowing with milk and honey.

Unto the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites.

now

therefore behold the cry of the children of israel has come unto me and i have also seen the oppression wherewith the egyptians oppress them come now therefore and i will send thee unto pharaoh and thou mayest bring forth my people the children of israel out of egypt

shall go before thee.

And bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I will cut them off.

Thou shalt

not...

Sorry about that.

And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites unto a land flowing with milk and honey.

And they shall hearken to thy voice, and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt.

And you shall say unto him, Okay, so this is basically Yahweh just laying out the roadmap of what's going to happen.

But In the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, but you shall devote them to complete destruction.

the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded, that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods.

And so you sin against the Lord your God.

When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them, You shall eat from them, but you shall not cut them down.