Josh. xiv. 6, and father of Caleb a ruler of the tribe of Judah.  Numb. xiii. 2, 6—­the Kenites registered in the genealogies of the tribe of Judah, Judg. i. 16; 1 Chron. ii. 55, and the one hundred and fifty thousand Canaanites, employed by Solomon in the building of the Temple.[D] Besides, the greatest miracle on record, was wrought to save a portion of those very Canaanites, and for the destruction of those who would exterminate them.  Josh. x. 12-14.  Further—­the terms employed in the directions regulating the disposal of the Canaanites, such as “drive out,” “put out,” “cast out,” “expel,” “dispossess,” &c., seem used interchangeably with “consume,” “destroy,” “overthrow,” &c., and thus indicate the sense in which the latter words are used.  As an illustration of the meaning generally attached to these and similar terms, we refer to the history of the Amalekites.  “I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.”  Ex. xvii. 14.  “Thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.”  Deut. xxv. 19.  “Smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not, but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep.” 1 Sam. xv. 2, 3.  “Saul smote the Amalekites, and he took Agag the king of the Amalekites, alive and UTTERLY DESTROYED ALL THE PEOPLE with the edge of the sword.”  Verses 7, 8.  In verse 20, Saul says, “I have brought Agag, the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.”  In 1 Sam. xxx. 1, 2, we find the Amalekites marching an army into Israel, and sweeping everything before them—­and this in about eighteen years after they had all been “UTTERLY DESTROYED!” In 1 Kings ii. 15-17, is another illustration.  We are informed that Joab remained in Edom six months with all Israel, “until he had cut off every male” in Edom.  In the next verse we learn that Hadad and “certain Edomites” were not slain.  Deut. xx. 16, 17, will probably be quoted against the preceding view.  We argue that the command in these verses, did not include all the individuals of the Canaanitish nations, but only the inhabitants of the cities, (and even those conditionally,) because, only the inhabitants of cities are specified—­“of the cities of these people thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth.”  Cities then, as now, were pest-houses of vice, they reeked with abominations little practised in the country.  On this account, their influence would be far more perilous to the Israelites than that of the country.  Besides, they were the centres of idolatry—­there were the temples and altars, and idols, and priests, without number.  Even their buildings, streets, and public walks were so many visibilities of idolatry.  The reason assigned in the 18th verse for exterminating them, strengthens the idea—­“that they teach you not to do after all the abominations which they have done unto their gods.”  This would be a reason for exterminating all the nations and individuals