God says, speaking of the Amorites, “I destroyed them from before you.”  In the 18th verse of the same chapter, it is said, “The Lord drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land.”  In Num. xxxii. 39, we are told that “the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.”  If these commands required the destruction of all the individuals, the Mosaic law was at war with itself, for directions as to the treatment of native residents form a large part of it.  See Lev. xix. 34; xxv. 35, 36; xxiv. 22.; Ex. xxiii. 9; xxii. 21; Deut. i. 16, 17; x. 17, 19; xxvii. 19.  We find, also, that provision was made for them in the cities of refuge, Num. xxxv. 15,—­the gleanings of the harvest and vintage were theirs, Lev. xix. 9, 10; xxiii. 22;—­the blessings of the Sabbath, Ex. xx. 10;—­the privilege of offering sacrifices secured, Lev. xxii. 18; and stated religious instruction provided for them.  Deut. xxxi. 9, 12.  Now does this same law require the individual extermination of those whose lives and interests it thus protects?  These laws were given to the Israelites, long before they entered Canaan; and they must have inferred from them, that a multitude of the inhabitants of the land were to continue in it, under their government.  Again Joshua was selected as the leader of Israel to execute God’s threatenings upon Canaan.  He had no discretionary power.  God’s commands were his official instructions.  Going beyond them would have been usurpation; refusing to carry them out, rebellion and treason.  Saul was rejected from being king for disobeying God’s commands in a single instance.  Now if God commanded the individual destruction of all the Canaanites Joshua disobeyed him in every instance.  For at his death, the Israelites still “dwelt among them,” and each nation is mentioned by name.  Judg. i. 27-36, and yet we are told that Joshua “left nothing undone of all that the Lord commanded Moses;” and that he “took all that land.”  Josh. xi. 15-22.  Also, that “there stood not a man of all their enemies before them.”  Josh. xxi. 44.  How can this be if the command to destroy, destroy utterly, &c., enjoined individual extermination, and the command to drive out, unconditional expulsion from the country, rather than their expulsion from the possession or ownership of it, as the lords of the soil?  That the latter is the true sense to be attached to those terms, we argue, further from the fact that the same terms are employed by God to describe the punishment which he would inflict upon the Israelites if they served other Gods.  “Ye shall utterly perish,” “be utterly destroyed,” “consumed,” &c., are some of them.—­See Deut. iv. 20; viii. 19, 20.[B] Josh. xxiii. 12, 13-16; 1.  Sam. xii. 25.  The Israelites did serve other Gods, and Jehovah did execute upon them his threatenings—­and