I snoozed with my iPhone alarm this morning from about 5:00 until around 5:30. At that point I opened up my YouVersion Bible app and started reading the reading from yesterday (which I fell asleep reading last night) in Joshua 16 & 17. I remembered reading this last night, and came across similar statements a few times this morning: Joshua 17:13 Whenever the Israelites were strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them. What?! Whenever they were at their strongest, they didn’t win?! Instead they made matters worse than not winning. They subjected the lands they conquered to forced labor. What began as a campaign of total annihilation became one of conquest. The difference being, many more people would flee annihilation, resulting in more survivors. Conquest with slavery brings about impurity within the land and a hope for the...