The New Generation

As was said, the task that remained to the one and a half tribes west of the Jordan was to prosecute the conquest by freeing their respective allotments from the remnants of the heathen tribes, and especially to cleanse the land of the altars and shrines of their pagan worship. But this was not done. With the exception of Judah, the tribes, in violation of the command of God, concluded a covenant with the heathen and, according to the articles of this covenant, the heathen were allowed to...