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?  True, multitudes of the Canaanites were slain, but not a case can be found in which one was either killed or expelled who acquiesced in the transfer of the territory, and its sovereignty, from the inhabitants of the land to the Israelites.  Witness the case of Rahab and her kindred, and the Gibeonites[A].  The Canaanites knew of the miracles wrought for the Israelites; and that their land had been transferred to them as a judgment for their sins.  Josh. ii. 9-11; ix. 9, 10, 24.  Many of them were awed by these wonders, and made no resistance.  Others defied God and came out to battle.  These occupied the fortified cities, were the most inveterate heathen—­the aristocracy of idolatry, the kings, the nobility and gentry, the priests, with their crowds of satellite, and retainers that aided in idolatrous rites, and the military forces, with the chief profligates of both sexes.  Many facts corroborate the general position.  Such as the multitude of tributaries in the midst of Israel, and that too, after they had “waxed strong,” and the uttermost nations quaked at the terror of their name—­the Canaanites, Philistines, and others, who became proselytes—­as the Nethenims, Uriah the Hittite—­Rahab, who married one of the princes of Judah—­Ittai—­the six hundred Gitites—­David’s body guard. 2 Sam. xv. 18, 21.  Obededom the Gittite, adopted into the tribe of Levi.  Comp. 2 Sam. vi. 10, 11, with 1 Chron. xv. 18, and 1 Chron. xxvi. 45—­Jaziz, and Obil. 1 Chron. xxvi. 30, 31, 33.  Jephunneh the father of Caleb, the Kenite, registered in the genealogies of the tribe of Judah, and the one hundred and fifty thousand Canaanites, employed by Solomon in the building of the Temple[B].  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 Amelekites.  “I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amelek from under heaven.”  Ex. xxvii. 14.  “Thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amelek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.”  Deut. xxv. 19.  “Smite Amelek 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 Amelekites, and took Agag the king of the Amelekites, alive and UTTERLY DESTROYED ALL THE PEOPLE with the edge of the sword.”